The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

1. While we perceive the Sun as yellow, its actual colour is white. This is because our atmosphere scatters the shorter, blue wavelengths of light, giving it a yellowish hue ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...