These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, ...

Conventional solar panels cannot completely utilise sunlight throughout the day since they are stuck in one location. For ...

About 4.5 million years ago, a great cosmic dog kicked past our Solar System – and its effects may still be seen today.

To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun. Disclaimer: ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it. The Sun and its ...

The solar system once had five giant gaseous planets rather than the four it has today. That’s the conclusion from a computer simulation of the solar system’s evolution, which suggests the fifth giant ...

Then, reading Scott Christianson’s 100 Diagrams that Changed the World, he saw Copernicus’ famous diagram of the planets orbiting around the sun and felt inspired. The solar system is a good analogy, ...

CLEVELAND — With so much focus on the total solar eclipse right now, I thought some stellar solar system facts would shake up your universe. Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system ...