Have you ever wondered what our solar system looked like 3.8 billion years ago? Were the planets we know today anything like ...

For many of us, the idea of a solar system with just eight planets is a fundamental concept in science. However, since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, Neptune has stood as the last ...

This evening’s viewing challenge is the planet Mercury. It is less than half a fist above the west-northwestern horizon at ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is ...