Transporter-15 will deliver more than 100 satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit, where each will begin its own, ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The most famous comet of all time, Halley's Comet, is finally heading back towards the sun. It reached its aphelion on Dec. 8, this marks the furthest distance away from the sun in ...

Scientists have discovered a large asteroid within Earth's orbit that was previously unseen because it was hidden by the sun's glare. In a study published in The Astronomical Journal, scientists using ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

SpaceX is due to launch another Falcon 9 rocket just three days after its last mission from Southern California. Here's how to watch a livestream.

The moon was 252,706 miles from Earth’s center at 2:46 a.m., roughly four hours before the new moon phase begins. This distance marks one of the four largest separations between Earth and its natural ...