and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto), not ...

So the clockwork solar system stuck with us—enduringly stable, it seemed, even without ... All this probably happened in the first 100 million years. Our Moon is BornThe birth of the planets ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

the solar system is full of bodies, and some are large, and some are small. Some are in regular orbits, and some are not. Which we call “planets” and which we don’t is really about our ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used ... good understanding of our Solar System.

you might remember a time when we thought there were nine planets in our solar system. Our order of the solar system mnemonics were forever ruined when poor Pluto was unceremoniously booted out of ...

Pluto has had a tough couple of decades. Formerly the ninth planet in our solar system, Pluto was demoted ... dominance in its own orbit. (We’ve all been there.) “Pluto is dead,” Mike ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was ... moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo… Stella: You should know where all the planets are ...