'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

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Pluto sits far out in the Solar System, small and dim, moving at a pace that barely fits human timelines. It was found in ...

If you have a clear view of the night sky at the end of February, you'll be able to see all the planets in the solar system with the naked eye, lined up in a "planetary parade." But what would these ...

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.