Changes to this map, newest first: new features, additions and fixes.
Expanded map
Videos made for your platform: “Where do you post?”
Pick Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts or YouTube and the video gets the right format, an opening card, a large counter, a closing line and an end screen.
Presets for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and YouTube
An opening card with the title of the map
A large counter that is easy to read on a phone
A closing line with the key number and an end screen with the map’s address
Expanded map
Spaceports and the history of orbital launches
A map of 48 launch sites with the number of launches up to any year, a page for each spaceport and the history of orbital launches by country.
A timeline of launches by country, with playback
Spaceport pages with operators, rockets and milestones
Launches per year, the space race and each country’s first successful launch
Solar System map: events calendar, comparisons, records and a quiz
See what is coming up in the Solar System, compare two bodies, browse records and take a quiz. Missions now show whether they are on the way, at their target or finished.
A calendar of upcoming events in the Solar System
A comparison of any two bodies
Records of the Solar System
A Solar System quiz
New moons: Kerberos and Styx of Pluto, and MK 2 of Makemake
Better maps on phones, faster photos and clearer page descriptions in search results.
Better map layout on phones
Photos load faster
Shorter, clearer page descriptions in search results
Better video quality for Instagram and TikTok
Updated electricity data in World in Numbers
Expanded map
Download time travel as a video or GIF
Turn the timeline on a map into an MP4, WebM or GIF in a vertical, square or wide format, with a year counter – ready for social media.
Vertical 9:16, square 1:1 and wide 16:9
MP4, WebM or GIF
A year or date counter on the video
Solar System map: the planets in motion
Expanded map
Smoother time travel on the maps
Playback on the timelines can now loop, has several speeds and pauses when the map is out of view. On point maps, new places appear at the top of the list as they happen.
Loop and several playback speeds
New eruptions, stories and sightings appear at the top of the panel during playback
In World in Numbers, colors change smoothly from year to year
Reduced-motion settings are respected
New map
Solar System map: where the planets are today
Planets, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids and space probes where they are today, with distances from Earth and the Sun and a slider of ±100 years.
Positions of the planets and other bodies for today
Electricity from wind and solar in 2000 and 2024, low-carbon electricity in 2024, how the median age changed since 1950 and the share of people aged 65+.