Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

According to the team’s findings, hydrogen cyanide is emerging close to the comet’s rocky nucleus, at rates between 250 and ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.