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The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
1979 – Pioneer 11 flies by Saturn, providing the first ever closeup images of the planet and its rings. It discovers the planet's F ring and determines that its moon Titan has a thick atmosphere. [199] 1979 – Goldreich and Tremaine postulate that Saturn's F ring is maintained by shepherd moons, a prediction that would be confirmed by ...
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
Detailed logarithmic timeline – Timeline of the universe, Earth, and mankind; Earth phase – Phases of the Earth as seen from the Moon; Evolutionary history of life; Future of Earth – Long-term extrapolated geological and biological changes of planet Earth; Geological history of Earth – The sequence of major geological events in Earth's past
Chronology of the universe – History and future of the universe; Circumplanetary disk – Accumulation of matter around a planet; Cosmology – Scientific study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe; Future of Earth – Long-term extrapolated geological and biological changes of planet Earth
This is a timeline of astronomy. It covers ancient, medieval, Renaissance-era, and finally modern astronomy. It covers ancient, medieval, Renaissance-era, and finally modern astronomy. Antiquity
For events dating from the formation of the planet to the rise of modern humans see: Timeline of natural history, Timeline of the evolutionary history of life and Timeline of human evolution. For events dating from the first appearance of Homo sapiens to before the invention of writing see: Timeline of prehistory
One important discovery made at different times in different places is that the bright planet sometimes seen near the sunrise (called Phosphorus by the Greeks) and the bright planet sometimes seen near the sunset (called Hesperus by the Greeks) were actually the same planet, Venus. [7] Animation depicting Eudoxus' model of retrograde planetary ...