These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...
In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...