Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal ... only bounces back 30% of its sunlight. Venus, the solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75% of the ...

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar System is about half-way along one of its arms. Our Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way at about 140 miles every second. It takes about 230 ...

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster ... (with 10 to 1,000 solar masses) and ...

the solar system and galaxies. This clip helps to reinforce the meaning of a galaxy, using the Milky Way as an example. Many students will have preconceptions about what dark matter is ...

The arc of the Milky Way is visible in the southwest right ... so you’re looking away from the Sun and into the outer Solar System. That’s why you can see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—the ...