Our Solar System

A lot of people go about their daily life on a routine; home to work, work to home, home to the market, an occasional trip here and there. They may...

Earth is rich in planetary features, liberally covered in mountains, valleys, lakes, oceans, volcanoes and the like. Not every planet is so varied...

The universe is huge. Billions of star are scattered throughout, and each of those stars likely sports a number of planets. Belts of asteroids and...

When a child throws a ball they are, after a fashion, launching it into orbit. It just happens that the child is not high enough and cannot throw the...

Big bangs, little grains of space dust, a guiding hand or incredible random coincidence; no matter the details or beliefs, the origin of the Solar...

We pass through it every moment of our lives; it is the air we breathe the rain that sustains our plants, the all-encompassing blanket that protects...

Looking at some maps of the solar system that include the asteroid belt one might think there is a ring of armor protecting the inner, terrestrial...

The sun lies at the center of our solar system, and from it emanates light and heat energy in all directions. It pushes out this energy and before it...

One might think, when hearing the term “dwarf planet”, that the object in question is simply a small planet, a subset of the planet category. This,...

There are four planets in our solar system that qualify as Gas Giants, but two of them are sub classified as “ice giants” and while all are thought...

It is with a touch of irony that the belt of far away objects circling the inner planets is know as the “Kuiper Belt”, considering that the man it is...

There are two types of planets in the universe, solid and gaseous. The gaseous planets are enormous balls of gas and are called “giants” for a...