Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

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

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

Eleven objects found at the extremities of the solar system could mark the location of a 'Kuiper Belt 2.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, 2025, https://allthatsinteresting.com/milky-way-3d-map. Accessed November ...

The Kuiper Belt could extend billions of miles farther than anyone thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's New Horizons ...

When you look up at the sky and see the sun beaming down at you, it’s hard to tell how truly big it is. So consider this: 1.3 million duplicates of Earth could comfortably fit inside of it, according ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

CLEVELAND — With so much focus on the total solar eclipse right now, I thought some stellar solar system facts would shake up your universe. Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system ...