It used to be the farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System, until it was declassified. It's an icy relic in the Kuiper Belt on the edge of our Solar SYystem, and has only been visited once, by ...

The solar system is a collection of celestial bodies held together by the sun's gravitational pull. Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy. The solar system consists of eight planets, ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

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It's been 20 years since Pluto lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system, but we still can't seem to let it go. Reading time 3 minutes Pluto remains one of the great generational divides ...