Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling at an incredible 430,000 miles per hour - faster than any human-made object ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

With so many interesting solar system facts, we've narrowed them down to 25 of our favorites. Our solar system consists of the sun and everything that orbits that sun, like the eight (once nine) ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...

Facts you didn't know about our solar systemGanymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, hides a salty ocean under its surface. It might even hold more water than Earth. Jupiter’s moon may have more water than ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Comet ISON barreled past Mars last week on its way toward a close encounter with the sun that has ...

Interested in going solar? Find a Solar Energy partner near you. Everyone has slightly different needs when they go solar, but 10 kilowatts of solar capacity can likely provide you with plenty of ...