This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only ...

Europe's Vega C rocket launched for the sixth time ever today (Dec. 1), sending South Korea's powerful KOMPSAT-7 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The most famous comet of all time, Halley's Comet, is finally heading back towards the sun. It reached its aphelion on Dec. 8, this marks the furthest distance away from the sun in ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.

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

Arianespace launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

D-Orbit’s ION vehicles were launched Nov. 28 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The two ION satellite carrier ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy ...