NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.
According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...
If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...
Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...
High winds, hundreds of lightyears away! Dan Smith shows just how fast one planet's jet stream is moving. 🪐💨 ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.
NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...
Sorry to Pluto, but it got booted out of the ... is called the ecliptic and it represents the plane of the solar system in which the planets orbit around the Sun.’ The agency adds: ‘Is it ...