All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...
The way people think of the Solar System has changed many times throughout history. Before the development of the telescope, these ideas were based on what could be seen with the naked eye.
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...
The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background ... contribute to the solar wind’s acceleration out into the solar system, said Adam ...