The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019 ...

We hear music everywhere we go in the natural world, to the point its consumption is second nature. Maybe the universe is ...

Roman deities, originates from Old English "eorþe," meaning soil or ground. This reflects humanity's early connection to land ...

Weather permitting, Jupiter will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be ...

So what does this all add up to? The researchers developed a capture cross-section for the solar system's phase space then calculated how many rogue planets are in our solar system's vicinity.