The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

The solar system is made up of the Earth, the sun and the rest of the planets. Within the system, the planets rotate around the sun in an anticlockwise direction.

The sun, moon and Earth will line up in a rare celestial event Monday that, from coast to coast, will turn day to night. The total solar eclipse will be the first in the United States in nearly a ...

A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar system is flawed. "They say the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and that it only ...

You may have seen videos or images on Facebook or other social media claiming that "all of the planets in our solar system can fit between Earth and the Moon" and wondered how accurate the claim is.

Since there are more than 150 moons in our solar system, you might think that plenty of other worlds would be occasionally treated to such a celestial shadowing. But unlike Earth, our fellow ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

The shadow of the moon darkens the Pacific Ocean during a total solar eclipse, as seen from space in 2016. Anyone who’s seen an eclipse like the one coming to the U.S. on Monday is likely to ...

This stunning image of the Sun looking just like a jack-o’-lantern was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in October 2014, and tweeted by the space agency for Halloween that year.

Nordgren: A total solar eclipse happens roughly every 18 months … so the position of the moon, its distance from Earth, when it crosses in front of the sun — these things change every single ...