Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar ...

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

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

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Visitors to the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery will start at the icy bodies beyond our solar system, and travel inward to the warm, life-giving sun. Space exploration has opened ...

I find the outer reaches of our solar system fascinating. It’s a place that we know very little about considering how relatively close it is – even its size is up for debate. It’s littered ...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst takes a selfie during an EVA outside the International Space Station in 2014. New research shows that when astronauts spend extended periods of time in space, their ...

It is being used to explore the beginning of the Universe ... light to get through In the centre of the Solar System is the Sun, our star. It is a huge ball of burning gas made mostly of hydrogen.

Space probes are sometimes sent to explore further into outer space ... and moons – or even travel much further, away from our solar system. Space probes have been sent to observe the outer ...