The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane, and all at different speeds. Mercury ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it ... Gradually they got larger and larger, sweeping up all the leftover dust, until ...

The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects together ... than planets so are also known as 'minor planets'. As well as planets and moons, the solar system also contains dwarf planets, which ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was ... know where all the planets are, they orbit the Sun, which is actually a star. This theory was known as the heliocentric ...

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

These worlds don’t come close enough to the known planets of the Solar System to be strongly influenced by them, so they can possibly point to worlds like “Planet 9”, and if Farout shows a ...

But do you know which planet is known as the red planet of the solar system? If not, let's uncover this mystery together. In this article, we will explore the distinct features of this enticing ...

Six of the eight planets known to us today were already ... and indeed the last – planet in our solar system be called? “So far, they have all be named after Roman gods,” says Mordasini.

It is a well-known fact that Sun is the centre of our solar system and all the planets orbit this yellow star. But that is ...