These space-themed cartoons are fun to watch with your kids, and they feature real-life space science and concepts in varying ...

Largest Planet in the Solar System: Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is the biggest in diameter, mass, and volume, and it is so large that all the other planets could fit inside ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Coloring Pages for Kids to learn Color Names!!

Astronomers are once again questioning whether our solar system is complete. Subtle gravitational effects suggest something ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...