Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

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.

Since the dawn of man, humans have looked up to the night sky, wondering what exactly they were looking at. Although many ancient societies mapped the skies with remarkable precision, they had ...

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!

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study ...

Researchers have been focusing on the study of our solar system for centuries, looking at the physics, dynamics, as well as the composition of solar system bodies. Our solar system – which ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night sky at once this week. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...