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 ...

Every January, Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun, known as perihelion. Yet, it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight orbit around our sun. Once it reaches its final position around our star on ...

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, ...

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 ...

Strange giant planets known as hot Jupiters, which orbit close to their suns, got kicked onto their peculiar paths by nearby planets and stars, a new study finds. After analyzing the orbits of dozens ...