Visualizing our solar system is one of those third-eye treats that never grows old. The Sun and its gravitationally bound planets, asteroids, etc. are in constant relative motion, and thinking about ...

It's fun to have Venus on the scene again. You can spot it at dusk very low in the northwestern sky starting about 20 minutes after sundown. Look for a solitary yellowish point of light struggling ...

Humanity has spent thousands of years understanding billion of years of universal history. Here’s a dizzying look at why the cosmos spin the way they do. *For the why behind this “rotation ...

The solar system is defined as everything under the influence of our star, the sun. This includes the planets, the dwarf planets, the moons, comets, asteroids, and the interplanetary dust and gas. In ...

Researchers describe a system of multiple planets orbiting a star that rotates backward. Unlike the Solar System, extrasolar planetary systems sometimes exhibit misalignment between the star's equator ...