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 ...

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

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

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.

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, 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 ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

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