Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re ...

When most people think of astrology, they typically think of their zodiac sign, also known as their Sun sign—the one that ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be passing by Jupiter to "seed" the planet with "technological devices." ...

Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...