When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

SMC Planetarium offers solar system and black hole shows in January and February, with tickets $7-16. Shows run Fridays at ...

Venture to the outer edges of the solar system where decades-long missions push the limits of human engineering. From ...

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NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

The estimated cost of the solar farm project is $370 million. The solar farm would be 247 megawatts, which is equivalent to ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...