The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...