When we're young children in school, many of us learn about the planets, the sun and maybe the asteroid belt. There's much more to our solar system …
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Pluto Is Just One of Millions of Objects in the Kuiper Belt
This doughnut-shaped ring around the sun is home to millions of comets, moons, dwarf plants and other celestial objects. Plus more about the Solar System.
More About the Solar System
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we saw the first high-definition photos of outer space in 2022. Stunning images of galaxies, …
You've probably heard it in some horoscope somewhere: The stars are aligned - or maybe the planets are aligned, so now's the time to buy a lotto …
It's hard to imagine life on Earth without the moon overhead each night. Though the moon seems an omnipresent object in the night sky, it actually …
As you learn more about the night sky, you've undoubtedly noticed three stars, equidistant from one another, that shine brightly as they pass …
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