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

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Editorial: Another daylight ...

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

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

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

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

Is there a full moon tonight? Here's what to know about today's special moon phase and when to look up for the next meteor ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 19, NASA will unveil more 3I/ATLAS images captured by the space agency's fleet of instruments both on the ...

Telescopes on Earth, along with multiple cameras in space, have captured a whole gallery of new imagery of this alien visitor to our solar system.