Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
The Solar System, consisting of giant planets, millions of asteroids and a Sun, has a boundary. Yes, like all countries on Earth, the Solar System too has a region after which its dominion ends. This ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...
If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system's known dwarf planets, ...
How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...