Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

The Solar System doesn't get much colder than the Kuiper Belt. Out past the orbit of Pluto, far from the warmth of the Sun, drifts a vast expanse of icy rocks and dwarf planets thought too cold to ...

Scientists have been piecing together the nature of the distant dwarf planet ... bodies in our solar system. The International Astronomical Union recognises five official dwarf planets, including ...

This week, however, the company announced that far-out destinations can now be summoned directly in web browsers through a new feature of Google Maps called "Planets." Fortunately the name is a ...

“We think this is the primordial, unaltered material that everything formed from in the solar system ... piling up dwarf planets into new orbits. “Once the Plutinos were discovered ...

Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

This image of Pluto, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, shows the dwarf planet lit from behind by the Sun, surrounded by a tenuous, hazy blue ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

Through observations, either with space telescopes or with ground-based equipment, we can find out how planets in our solar system and beyond are structured, what materials they are made of, whether ...