Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in ...

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

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

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

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

New images from ESA's Juice probe and Hubble reveal a rare double tail on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it approaches Earth ...

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

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

For thirty years, SOHO has watched the Sun from a stable perch in space, revealing the inner workings of our star and ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...