The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Emporia State and the Peterson Planetarium will collaborate with Emporia Main Street on creating a permanent scale model of the solar system throughout campus and the downtown area, a project ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...

It’s like a big, thick bubble around our solar system, made of icy, comet-like objects. Credit: NASA The spiral pattern is about 15,000 astronomical units wide, or around 1.4 trillion miles from one ...

In reality, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of natural satellites, in our cosmic neighborhood ... So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends ...

Our solar system has always seemed a vast place, even to the most ancient astronomers who knew little of the universe other than what the sun, moon, and stars could reveal to the naked eye.

Scientists have determined that around 14 million years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and might have experienced increased interstellar dust, which could ...

In conclusion, solar cell arrays with careful attention to semiconductor choice and device construction represent a promising technology for sustaining an Earth-independent crewed habitat on Mars. Our ...

Credit: University of Western Ontario Gregg, a Ph.D. candidate in physics and astronomy, developed a computer model to study our solar system, Alpha Centauri and the interstellar activity—the ...