This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This animated video presents the Solar System by Size, providing an engaging and educational exploration of our solar system and the universe. #solarballs #spaceballs #countryba ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...