our visions of the cosmos often took the shape of diagrams—representing what we believed about our solar system. What’s remarkable about Claudius Ptolemy’s vision of the universe is that it ...

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When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality ...

This diagram shows the orbital distribution of extrasolar planets ... Most of these extrasolar planets are much closer to their host stars than the innermost planets of our solar system are to the sun ...

The identical Pioneer plaques show a nude man and woman along with an orbital diagram of our solar system. NASA no longer gets signals from the Pioneer spacecraft, but if extraterrestrial life ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

This year, we got to know our Solar System a little better. For millennia, humans have believed the Earth or the Sun occupied the center of the Solar System, but the truth is the planets and the ...

Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system diagram. Can’t you picture it? All of our planets, (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune), circling around our ...

A composite image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system's known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201. | Credit: Sihao Cheng et al. Scientists have found evidence of ...