The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha Centauri, new research has revealed.

Create your own masterpiece of the solar system. You could paint it, use different sized objects or draw it. Don't forget to label it and add any facts that you know!

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.

They are stored in the Oort cloud, a huge, diffuse sphere of cometary nuclei in the far reaches of the solar system. Close to the sun, yet still beyond Neptune, circle what may well be their ...

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Previous research has suggested that the Oort cloud contains remnants of the solar system's planets, which were formed over 4 billion years ago, but its exact shape and structure have been a mystery.