A spectacular “planet parade” (also called an alignment) featuring six planets is visible during August. Here’s when and ...

A tiny meteorite found in Northwest Africa just changed the story of our solar system. Scientists now say the inner and outer planets actually formed at the same time—not one after the other ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

Embark on a thrilling journey through our Solar System, exploring the inner planets and space travel possibilities. We start with an introduction to the incredible potential of space travel and ...

Washington, not to be confused with the nation's capital, is part of North Carolina’s Inner Banks, was the first U.S. town named after George Washington.

Additionally, on the fourth, Neptune stations retrograde. As one of the outer planets, Neptune spends a large portion of the year retrograde (from July 4 to December 10, to be specific).

Both were made from a single piece of glass, with different curvatures for the inner and outer parts of the mirror— a unique challenge that took seven years to fabricate.

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

The tour began in New Bern, traveled throughout the Outer Banks, and concluded in Washington. The Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club organizes trips like this about once a year, typically exploring ...

The researchers also found that a planet at any given location was as likely as any other to be ejected over the course of their simulations, so neither inner nor outer planets could be considered ...