While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system.

A dazzling new animation captures the life cycle of a solar flare in 3D, using vivid colors to represent the varying temperatures in the fiery eruption. The intriguing animated snapshot shows the ...

Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations that also help you learn about the solar system, ... Titanic’s first ever 3D scan reveals details of doomed ship’s final hours.

NASA’s Kepler space telescopespotted thousands of worlds during its four-year mission, proving that our galaxy is filled with planets. But even more ...

How the hunt for a 'missing planet' revealed asteroids in our solar system Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers ...

Solar System Animation. The planets in our solar system are all different, from composition to rotation speeds and orientation. The concept of how the planets are rotating at different speeds, ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system.

Previous attempts have been mildly successful, but this system is impressive in its ability to isolate and create a pretty realistic 3D animation from a single image.

Solar wind repels 70% of cosmic radiation, but it doesn't protect every side of the solar system equally.

A new animation shows the orbits of hundreds of dwarf planets beyond Pluto. The astronomer who compiled the data says it may only capture a small fraction of dwarf planets in the solar system.

A dazzling new animation captures the life cycle of a solar flare in 3D, using vivid colors to represent the varying temperatures in the fiery eruption. The intriguing animated snapshot shows the ...