As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

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

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like ...

A large radio galaxy study finds our solar system moves faster than theory predicts, raising new questions about how matter ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to multiple wonders. There is our biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, the column-like structures known as the Pillars of Creation, and, in the middle of it all, a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of ...

Scientists previously thought the solar system was flying through space at 515,000 mph. It may actually be going three times ...

It's the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such a bounty of days off? In ...

Our sun will run out of fuel in the distant future and become a white dwarf after going through a red giant phase. Astronomers at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have discovered a distant ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have discovered a rare family of six planets about 100 light years from Earth. The exo-planets are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune. The planets are in a ...