Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor ...

A team of international scientists has identified a promising Planet Nine candidate by comparing infrared surveys of the sky ...

This is an image of the Sun, recently captured using the Visible Tunable Filter or VTF on the Inouye Solar Telescope. Each pixel in this vibrant photo represents 6.2 miles, revealing our Solar ...

Comparing that data to estimates about our Solar System's trajectory, the Vienna researchers found that the Sun and the Radcliffe ... different to anyone looking out from Earth when our Solar ...

“Now we can go and find this planet and make the solar system have nine planets once again.” In a NASA post, titled “Is Planet X real?”, the space agency lays out ... our Sun on a highly ...

Among the various places humans have aspired to visit in the solar system ... and heavy nuclei are spit out of the solar corona — the uppermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere — at about ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system ... Sun and the Earth — the Oort cloud is both incredibly vast and ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.