TIM:When I was up on the ISS, that different perspective really brought home the sheer scale of the ... it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting ...

NARRATOR: Our solar system is ... and mysteries than just these planets that are shown in the model. So, to me, the most exciting thing about studying the solar system is not the planets ...

"We have no way to determine how different exoplanets really look in detail yet, and this makes them a rich space for creativity." As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists ...

Although most stars are much larger than planets, there are some planets that boast impressive size as well. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. The planet is what’s ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model ... our Solar System dropped from having nine ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...