The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

That might sound like a small number, but it represents a significant flow of material when considered over the immense ...

Solaren Renewable Energy Solutions Corp, a leading provider of renewable energy solutions in the Philippines, has launched an ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The size of the solar system is defined by the volume ...

The Global Solar Council (GSC) recently announced it would expand its mandate to represent both solar PV and battery storage -- becoming the world's first ...

Age data for certain classes of meteorite have made it possible to gain new findings on the origin of small water-rich astronomical bodies in the early solar system. These so-called planetesimals ...

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...