Tags: solar system

A group of friends has created a stunning 7-mile scale model of the solar system on a dry lakebed in Nevada. “The only way to see a scale model of...

If cold weather is what he’s after, there are plenty of frigid territories in the solar system where Santa could set up shop beyond the North Pole. Here we tour...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile captured this picture of disks that formed around a young star about 450 light years away from our planet. Now, scientists are...

Astronomers have discovered an alien solar system whose planets are arranged much like those in our own solar system, a find that suggests most planetary systems start out looking the...

Lurking near the orbit of Jupiter is an asteroid like no other — it’s an alien from another star system. Unlike the famous asteroid `Oumuamua that zoomed past our sun...

Some of the most interesting objects in our solar system are also the smallest or largest. In addition to the sun, planets, and moons, our solar system has a variety...

Comet Thatcher hasn’t visited our neck of the solar system since the American Civil War. And scientists predict that the giant hunk of ice and dust won’t come back here...

Our solar system may be an oddball in the universe. A new study using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope shows that in most cases, exoplanets orbiting the same star...

When we go to the beach, maybe we sit under umbrellas. We wear sunscreen. After all, we’ve been burned before, literally. Being outside on a clear day involves being relentlessly...

One of the weird things about space is that things don’t always conform to what would seem like common sense. Take the Sun, for example. You’d think that the Sun’s...