What is the solar system? MADDIE MOATE: The universe is vast. CHILD: Vast means really, really big! MADDIE: There are a lot of stars in our universe. And the sun is a star that gives out heat and ...

The Earth is our planet. It is one of eight planets that move around the sun, each in an oval shaped, elliptical orbit close elliptical orbitAn orbit that is the shape of an ellipse. An ellipse is ...

The Sun is extremely active right now, blasting the Earth with the biggest solar storms in 20 years. This is what it is doing to the rest of the Solar System. If you happened to look skywards on a few ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

In short: A new study, yet to be peer reviewed, builds on years of evidence suggesting a ninth planet exists in the Solar System. Despite this, researchers have not yet seen it directly using ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...