Fun Facts About Jupiter’s Frozen and Fractured Moon Europa
Europa And It’s Subsurface Ocean Europa is one of the smoothest and most reflective objects in the solar system on account of its young icy surface which scientists believe harbours…
Callisto – Facts About The Oldest & Most Battered Surface
A Dark And Cratered Moon! Callisto is the 3rd largest moon in the solar system, yet shows no signs of any geological processes that have altered its surface since its…
Ganymede – Facts About The Largest & Most Massive Moon
Jupiter’s Giant Icy Moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even bigger than Planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto! Ganymede’s discovery in 1610 (along…
Io – The Most Volcanic Body In The Solar System
The Fire And Ice Moon! Looking like a giant ball of moldy cheese and almost completely devoid of craters, Io is easily the most geologically active object in the solar…
Fun Facts About Mars’ Small Lumpy Moon Deimos
Learn All About Deimos! You’ve come to the right place to learn fun facts about one of Mars’ small moons - Deimos. It’s quite different from Earth's Moon and much…
Exoplanets 101 | Fun Facts About Distant Planets
Planets Orbiting Distant Stars An ‘exoplanet’ is a planet beyond our solar system which orbits a star in the Milky Way galaxy. For a long time, it was thought other…
Pluto | The Dwarf Planet Formerly Known As A Planet
God Of The Underworld! Here you can learn lots of interesting facts about the planet which for 76 years was considered the solar system’s 9th planet! Now classed as a…
Where And What Is The Scattered Disc Region
The Distant Frozen Home Of The Comets! The scattered disc is a thick ‘donut-shaped’ region of the outer solar system and is a subset of the broader trans-Neptunian region. It…
Minor Planet Sedna – The Mysterious Inner Oort Cloud Object
The Deep Space Orbiter! Discovered on November 14th 2003, Sedna contributed to the formation of the Dwarf Planets classification and ultimately the demotion of Pluto! With its distant highly eccentric…
Protoplanets – The Building Blocks Of Planet Formation
Small Differentiated Bodies! A protoplanet is a large body in space that coalesced from smaller planetesimals in the early solar system’s protoplanetary disc and gradually combining to form the planets.…