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

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

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

Gravity provides the force needed to maintain the stable orbit of planets around a star and also of moons and artificial satellites around a planet. The moons around planets in the Solar System ...

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

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 ...

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

The resolution allows South Bend to pursue a solar energy project similar to the one implemented in 2016 at Century Center.

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

All the planets in the solar system orbit the sun on the same plane and in the same direction — west to east. That's called prograde motion. Mercury is constantly racing around the sun ...

ABB Motion, the motors business of Swiss-Swedish electrical-equipment producer ABB, has released a new solar drive for water pumping. The ACQ80 variable speed drive (VSD) system features built-in ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.