When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The fastest object ever built by humans will fly within a whisker of the sun today. The Parker Solar Probe will race past at 435,000mph as it studies the sun's surface and atmosphere. That's so fast ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

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 ...

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 ...