This illustration depicts the most distant object yet found in our Solar System, nicknamed "Farfarout," in the lower right. Along the bottom, various Solar System objects are plotted according to ...

Two years after being discovered and nick-named by a team of astronomers, a planetoid almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto has been officially confirmed. The confirmation of “Farfarout” ...

A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. The app, called Star Chart for VR, is billed as the first virtual ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, possesses a diameter of 31,800 miles (51,100 kilometers), making it the solar system's third-largest planet. Its atmosphere, composed primarily of hydrogen (83 ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! Enjoy fun, entertaining animations that help you learn about the solar system and the universe. This channel features space animations combined with comedy. Trump admin proposes ...

Did you ever build one of those scale models of the solar system as a kid? You know, where you walk around a football field setting down balls of different sizes, attempting to gain some understanding ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant object ever found in our solar system. The planetoid — the term for a small chunk of rock or dust or ice orbiting the sun — is appropriately nicknamed ...

At this very moment NASA's Voyager 1 and 2, two spacecraft that left Earth in the 1970s, are exiting the solar system. The two spacecraft are passing through the magnetic bubbles at its edge ...

It isn't easy to measure the distance of stars. We can't travel to them, counting the miles as we go, nor can we simply say that brighter stars are closer and dimmer ones more distant. Instead, we ...