ANOTHER airline has announced that it will have free Wi-Fi on board its planes from this week. Emirates, which was voted by ...

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 ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

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

Uranus is the only planet in our solar system that rotates sideways. It has an axial tilt of about 98 degrees, which means it appears to roll around the Sun instead of spinning upright like Earth or ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

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 ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.