When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

What would happen if Earth, Mars, and all the planets in our solar system merged into one massive super-planet? In this video, we explore the science, chaos, and incredible consequences of such a ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

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, ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.