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 ...

How special is our solar system? Is our sun unique? What about the number, arrangement, and composition of our planets – are they weird, or what astronomers expect to see? Is our planetary ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

We know a lot about our Milky Way Galaxy’s location in the universe thanks to efforts to map the distances to nearby galaxies. Our galaxy is a member of the Local Group — a small collection of ...

As we delve into the mysteries of the cosmos, one question that often arises is: where is the darkest place in the solar system? And extending that curiosity further, where is the darkest place in the ...

As NASA's New Horizons mission approaches Pluto, we're poised to get our best-ever look at an object from the outskirts of our Solar System: formed from the ice-and-rock that was far too distant to ...

The coldest recorded temperature on Earth is minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but many other planets are regularly colder than this. Temperatures on Mars, for example, range from 70 degrees all the way ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you were to look at our Universe at the time our Solar System formed ...

Look into the night sky, and it might seem like space is a vast expanse of darkness. But are any regions darker than others? What's the darkest place in the solar system and, on a grander scale, the ...