You know, for kids. Worth's map is scrollable, and as you scroll to the right you soar across our solar system at a speed that reinforces the feeling that it's the longest article you've ever ...

The Conversation’s Curious Kids series responds to children’s questions on all sorts of topics, but there’s one that comes up again and again: space. For the second episode in our webinar ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA ...

As the team's map shows, the heliosphere doesn't exactly stay true to the "sphere" part of its name; the barrier around the solar system is more of a wibbly-wobbly blob that's far thinner on one ...

How the hunt for a 'missing planet' revealed asteroids in our solar system Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers ...

Water map graphic by Stephanie Fox. There’s only one body in the solar system where we have indisputable evidence that there’s liquid water on the surface – that, of course, would be Earth ...

You might think, then, that the coldest planet in the Solar System would be Neptune, as it is the furthest away from the Sun’s warmth. Neptune is an incredible three billion miles away from the Sun.

Solar eclipse activities for kids There were some creative ideas that surfaced during the 2017 solar eclipse that more families are trying out this time around. Here are some of the best.

A quick guide to the ‘new’ kids in the Solar System Premium Oumuamua’s speed and path around the Sun don’t match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail or nucleus (icy core) we ...

While these planets in our solar system are incredibly cold, there are even chillier places in the universe. The coldest of all is the Boomerang Nebula , a cloud of dust and gas 30 million billion ...