NASA has spotted an object 2.1 billion kilometres from the Sun which defies all principles of how the universe works. Only a handful of such events have been recorded ever since humans started keeping ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond ... region in our solar system, which is ...

Welcome to model.samuelesnow.co, a visually rich, animated, and interactive website built to demonstrate the true scale of our Solar System as part of a school project for: ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

Come discover our planetary neighborhood—as if from interstellar space, moving in toward our Sun. This “outside-in” perspective is how we may someday explore other solar systems. Ages ago, people ...

It is located by the Söderhamn River in Söderhamn. The distances between these planetary models are scaled down from the actual distances in our Solar System. For example, the Earth model is located 8 ...