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

Earlier this month, Google researchers released a paper about “Project Suncatcher,” the company’s research “moonshot” to ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

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 ...

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 ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...