Have you ever looked into the stars in the night sky and asked yourself questions like “What else is out there?” The universe ...

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As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

During the height of the Space Race, space exploration occupied a much larger place in American culture and education.

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...