Our Solar System is home to eight extraordinary planets, each with its own unique features, mysteries, and beauty. This cosmic journey takes you from the Sun-scorched surface of Mercury to the icy ...

Don't worry though—it's not like one planet simply fell out of the solar system. We'll explain what happened and also show you some tricks for remembering the order of all of the planets that ...

Organic molecules, in abundance everywhere in our solar system, have been found on Ceres and Pluto. But the one missing ingredient for all the dwarf planets is a source of energy.

The planets in our solar system are heated by the sun. Here on Earth , we are about 100 million miles away from the sun — a distance that provides the perfect temperature for life.

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, pushing it past Saturn as the planet in our solar system with the most moons — a whopping 92. Feb. 6, 2023 ...

What Pluto can teach us about planets and our solar system : Short Wave Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size ...

Seeing the Solar System all in one night is a real eye-opener, but some of the planets aren’t easy to find. However, at least five of them are fairly straightforward, and that’s not a bad haul ...