Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice ...

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 ...

Note: I generally don’t do a thorough debunking of pseudoscientific nonsense on the blog, and instead relegate that to the main site. But I decided to do this on the blog, knowing that more people ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Our planet’s elliptical orbit doesn’t affect winter or summer temperatures. But some astronomers wonder whether it’s a factor in why life survives. By Shannon Hall This story was updated to reflect ...

This illustration depicts a binary star system consisting of a dense neutron star and a normal Sun-like star (upper left). Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, astronomers found ...