treasure troves of precious metals and jewels, and extreme conditions that turn what we know here on Earth on its head. Here are some of the most dizzying facts about our solar system.

Even so, there are parts of the distant Solar System that we know about, such as the Kuiper Belt. It's all good and well knowing facts about space, but how do you get there? Find out here.

Create your own masterpiece of the solar system. You could paint it, use different sized objects or draw it. Don't forget to label it and add any facts that you know!

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

Computer simulations of the gravitational interactions of solar system bodies suggest that a hypothetical Earth-like planet explains all of those anomalies. It would need to be around 1.5–3 ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has ...