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

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A distant 'exomoon' the size of Jupiter is changing how we think about the cosmos.

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of strange, wandering worlds are rewriting what we know – and even how we ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

For years, everyone assumed our solar system’s eight planets (nine, when Pluto was within the fold) were the whole story. Planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and that’s all — case closed. But there’s a ...

The Solar System is surrounded not just by planets, but by vast structures above, below, and beyond the familiar orbital ...