Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...
Mercury, which is closest to the sun ... alignment is simply an optical illusion: the planets are still separated by millions ...
But what’s it like on other planets? There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life.
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...