Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

There are eight planets in our solar system – plus poor old Pluto, which was demoted in 2006 – but what if there were more? Turns out that might be the case. Astronomers have calculated there ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and is 318 times bigger than the Earth ... Light from the Sun reaches the Earth in just 8 minutes! Remember – don't ever look directly at the sun – ...

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible ...

But what’s it like on other planets? There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

If you’re in the path of totality on April 8, you’ll see planets. In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t ...

With 8 planets now known, the thoughts of astronomers ... than any of the planets in the outer solar system. Nevertheless, because it orbited the Sun like a planet, it was classified as a planet ...

It also looks at the insights we can gain from our own Solar System, and how we can apply them. The contributors, all of high-standing in the field, provide a balanced and varied introduction to ...

The first clue came from Pluto. The oddball of the solar system, it dips far above and below the pancake-like plane in which the eight planets travel; it swoops on an elongated orbit that takes it ...