Earth spins as it orbits the Sun, and the solar system is orbiting the galactic center. So, if I go outside and look up, in what direction are we heading? Dale Peterson Oak View, California When ...

Now, they're heading to the outer reaches of the solar system, into the darkness of interstellar space. Just how far they'll go no one really knows. Voyager 1 is a little under 15.4 billion miles ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

No doubt many owners of a solar system will be outraged and indignant ... celebrating the fact that daylight power prices are heading to zero? It is actually a remarkable achievement.