This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion years old—about three times the age of the solar system ...

Look up at the night sky and among the stars you might see a few brighter dots — the planets in our solar system. What you won’t see, though, are the most common kinds of planets in the Milky Way: ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Objects from beyond the Solar System are rare visitors that give scientists a glimpse of other star systems. Their strange ...

This space-themed video explores the possible future approach of Gliese 710, a nearby star projected to pass close to our ...

The new goal of the revamped program was to study the outer solar system and the interstellar medium beyond the sun’s ...