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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 obvious way to fire someone into the Sun is the direct approach, as shown in South Park Season 1. Point a rocket at the ...