We all know the basics of the solar system — a big burning star in the middle and bunch of planets spinning around the outside.

Astronomers meeting in Beijing say they've agreed on a new definition of the fundamental unit of distance between objects in the solar system.

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Our solar system is so vast that it’s sometimes difficult to picture. But by creating smaller scales of our cosmic neighborhood, we can begin to comprehend the relative sizes of Earth, the Sun ...

Open Academy's non-credit Solar Energy Basics course on the Coursera platform recently hit a milestone of 50,000-plus enrollments since it launched back in 2019. It puts that course in the top 10 ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

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