While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Skygazers across Texas and beyond can catch a glimpse of six planets arcing across the night sky this week in a so-called ...

Step outside just after sunset and you may catch an unusual sight: six planets strung across the sky in a gentle arc. The ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been remains a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

It was one of humanity’s greater vanities that we ever questioned whether there are any planets in the universe beyond the eight in our little solar system. Our sun is a perfectly ordinary star, ...

A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...