The Everyday Solar System Challenge. By Phil Plait. March 09, 2013 8:00 AM. ... create a set of pictures of everyday objects that look like the planets in the solar system. ...

I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from different viewpoints and moments in time. Fill out each drop down menu ...

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, our Solar ...

The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass. It sheds most of the heat and light that makes life possible on Earth and possibly elsewhere.

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

An illustrated diagram of the sun and the planets of the solar system. (Image credit: SCIEPRO via Getty Images) Researchers discovered the 12 potential massive objects around 60 AU from the sun ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist. Now, scientists have found a total of 14 of them.