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225088 Gonggong (2007 OR10) discovered on January 8, 2005 by Michael Brown and his team thanks to the 1.26 m telescope

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Until 2006 it was the last planet of the solar system. It belongs today to the family of the dwarf

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Neptune has 14 known moons, which are named for minor water deities in Greek mythology. By far the largest of

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Neptune is invisible to the naked eye. It was discovered in 1846 by Urbain Le Verrier because something disrupted the

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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. This planet is almost 5 times bigger than Earth and 14.5 heavier.

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We speak of a system because there is not only one ring but countless, almost an infinity. The rings of

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Why do we need scientific names for things? Usually, one of two reasons. Either, for an international standard across languages,

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Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As

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In relation to the Sun, Venus is the second planet after Mercury, just in front of the Earth. No planet

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Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It orbits 58 million kilometers from the Sun, 2.7 times closer than