The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has slipped closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history, and its latest flyby has now ...

Theoretically, there is room for thousands. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar system contains eight planets: Mercury, ...

NASA had a big year in 2018 with several bold new missions to study various features of our Solar System, and one of the most exciting was the launch of the Parker Solar Probe which will study the Sun ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of ...

NASA's Juno probe just passed closer to Jupiter than any human-made craft ever. And no surprise, photos confirm that the fifth planet from the sun looks huge up close. Huge. It's so huge, in fact, ...

Satellites are being pushed out of their orbits by the sun as space weather is set to get even more intense over the next few years. The solar activity caused Earth's atmosphere to heat up, increasing ...

Question asked by Robert: Are there any planets that do not actually orbit but are instead stationery relative to their parent stars? Is this scenario possible? I'm going to say no because I think ...

Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded winds up next to a star ...

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, and subject of the Juno mission, is huge. Huge. It's so huge, in fact, that it doesn't actually orbit the sun. Not exactly. With 2.5 times the mass ...