Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

FireChicken2396 said essentially the same thing in a comment on NexusMods: "It baffles me that Bethesda chose to use BOTH Light Years and Astronomical Units in the game. AU was most of the time in ...

The Sun and Earth are 149 million kilometres apart, and we give this distance a name: an astronomical unit (AU). For an even twistier unit of distance, we use the parsec (insert Han Solo Kessel ...

An astronomical unit (AU) is equal to the distance between Earth and the sun, 93 million miles. Technically, A11pl3Z is already in the solar system, and is currently 3.8 AU away from Earth as of ...

If you think of the distance from the Earth to the Sun (approximately 93 million miles) as 1 AU (Astronomical Unit) then the Oort Cloud begins, way, way past Neptune at about 1,000 AUs.

One au (astronomical unit) is approximately the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. However, if the asteroid does hit it would not likely cause a global catastrophe.

One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun, approximately 91.757 million miles. For comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is located 34 AU from the Sun. This illustration shows ...