People around the world will have a chance this weekend to catch what could be the year’s most stunning view of the largest planet in our solar system ... is made up of Sirius in the ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the ... the solar sail demonstrator could even appear as bright as Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

The Sirius system, about 8.6 light-years from us ... to accrete hydrogen and reach the supernova threshold of 1.4 solar masses. Sirius B takes roughly 50 years to orbit Sirius A.

One set of dots had matching colors and brightness. open image in gallery Is there a possible ninth planet in our solar system? Researchers say they may have found a candidate (Credit: ESO/Tom ...

On New Year’s Eve, now in the constellation of Cancer, Mars will be 61.3 million miles (98.6 million km) from Earth and shine at magnitude -1.2, which is just a bit dimmer than Sirius ...

The light of the great Sirius, sometimes called from its superlative ... miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would ...

If you were to look at a giant picture of space, zoom in on the Milky Way galaxy, and then zoom in again on one of its outer spiral arms, you’d find the solar system. Astronomers believe it ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System.

Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system. From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of ...

Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might have memorized that there were nine planets in our solar system, as heard in the famous Schoolhouse Rock!