Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends on.

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The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

Our solar system is speeding through the galaxy at more than three times the velocity scientists once believed, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The findings,released in November 2025, could ...