You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

Every planet in the solar system is affected by multiple forces. The gravity of the Sun pulls planets toward the center of the solar system. The inertia from the creation of the planets sent ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, ... This movement, however, is a result of the Earth rotating; it's not the result of the actual motion of the ...

Image Credit: Shutterstock. As a result of this, Io has numerous active volcanoes, about 400, that pepper the surface. One of them, called Loki, is the most powerful volcano in our solar system ...

Of course, that does not look like our solar system. ... What we have here is a flat but oscillating solar system. That kind of motion would make life on Earth very confusing.

Since the orbital motion of our planet makes the Sun appear to move eastward relative to the stars, it has to rotate 361 ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...