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 ...

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

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

One of the most ambitious missions currently underway is BepiColombo, a European-Japanese probe heading to Mercury.

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

Scientists have found an old structure in the farthest point of the solar system that can throw light on what the earliest star system looked like, and why the planets are where they are. They are ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

Skydiver and friend of McCarthy, Gabe Brown, can be seen falling across the face of the sun in the new photograph, which the ...