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

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

Experience the breathtaking flyby of Pluto as New Horizons transforms our understanding of the solar system Witness ice mountains taller than the Alps vast plains and a heart-shaped formation that cap ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Discover the decades-long quest to reach Pluto, from early mission concepts to the historic 2015 New Horizons flyby that ...

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling ...

B-1 bombers from Texas flexed on Venezuela this week, with an offshore flyby no doubt intended to get Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro‘s attention. The pair of supersonic bombers, call signs Barb21 ...