An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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Solar energy will satisfy more than 50% of global energy demand within a decade according to a new modeling tool that also ...

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

The early instability model in which the early inner solar system was basically such a chaotic, orbital mess that the building blocks for rocky planets beyond the orbit of earth and Venus were too ...

Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Lisa Upton has received the 2025 Karen Harvey Prize from the American Astronomical Society ...