The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...

Those "arms" resemble the elongated structures of a spiral galaxy, like our very own Milky Way. At an epic timescale ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Power purchase agreements (PPAs) offer a different approach to solar financing. With one, a solar provider installs and ...

The Sun and its planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions. In general, as the distance from the ...