The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a ...

Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

and they have very long orbits which means they are found further out in our solar system.” Given this distance and their pattern of movement, it’s easy to see how the mistake was made.

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...

If you get the question in Trivial Pursuit “how many plantes are there in the Solar System?”, depending on when you went to school or how old the version is, there’s a fair chance of giving ...