A woman who wanted constant electricity for her business got a solar system instead of using the money to improve her old ...

The solar system is far bigger and stranger than most of us realize. This video explores ten mindblowing facts that change ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — delivering an unprecedented, wide-field view of how these solar storms travel ...

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The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The solar system suddenly has a new member. A new object ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...