It’s like going back to school again and reading up on the solar system – the sun and everything that orbits around it, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Take a ...

OK, over the past eight episodes of Crash Course Astronomy we’ve covered a lot of basics: What you can see, how you can see it, and how some basic forces sculpt what’s out there. So. What’s ...

During the course of making the Crash Course Astronomy series, our animators at Thought Café and I put together a fun poster of the solar system with little factoids about the various members of ...

Binary and Multiple Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #34 Episode 34 | 11m 46s Double stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they’re gravitationally bound together we ...

Get to know host Phil Plait and begin with answering a simple question: what is astronomy? Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the ...

Ultimately, Super Planet Crash is more than just a game. It can help individuals understand both the mechanics that govern orbital physics and the ultimate fate of our own solar system.

The neutron-star collision that gave the solar system its precious metals is sharing its secrets with scientists.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.