Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in order to have a habitable planet.” The Nice model is a hypothesis ...

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

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

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.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

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

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

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 ...

and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning system. In a lot of ways, SDO has its roots in the earlier Solar and Heliospheric Observer, or SOHO, the wildly successful ESA solar ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble ... system The tunnel isn’t just an isolated feature. The team's ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...