The Sun is a gigantic dynamo powered by hydrogen ... Voyagers 1 and 2 are on a one-way trip, sent forth to study the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.

Astronomers finally spotted a previously 'invisible' object near our solar system when they realized it was actually glowing ...

Scientists from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, together with scientists from the University of Graz, ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system ... sun, it's the second hottest and orbits on average 36 million miles away from ...

The robotic Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting Saturn looked back toward the eclipsed Sun and saw a view ... into the deepest reaches of our solar system. These probes, unlike the Hubble ...

Now sup-: pose that retaining your consciousness, you could go: out, far beyond the confines of our solar system, to a point one thousand times as far beyond Neptune as Neptune is from the sun.

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

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

which ebbs and flows as our solar system ambles through the Milky Way. (For objects near the Sun, like planets, the tide's effect is largely overpowered by the star's gravity.) This is what the ...