We have all seen cartoons or sci-fi shows where the heroes travel through space and inevitably run into a planet…
If you could just look at Venus and Jupiter from afar at the same time, you might think they’d have…
The Whirpool Galaxy is one of the better-known galaxies. It can be seen with a basic home telescope or even…
Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar system and is located more than 872 million kilometers (542 million miles)…
Comparing Mercury and Jupiter is a very interesting exercise because, at first glance, they are complete opposites. Mercury is the…
Uranus is one of the eight planets in the Solar system. It is second-to-last in order of distance from the…
At the time of writing, about 6,000 planets have been confirmed outside the Solar system. But that’s just the beginning.…
It is very likely that Mars looked similar to Earth millions of years ago. What is now a red, cold,…
We are all standing on a planet that is floating in space right now. We call it Earth and it…
Saturn is one of the coolest planets in the Solar system. And I’m not just saying that because of how…