The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been an object of fascination for astronomers for a long time, but it still manages to surprise ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

While Saturn 's magnificent rings, spanning 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometres), are a familiar celestial marvel, scientists have now reported a groundbreaking discovery: the first observation of a ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...