A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Our solar system is probably on the mild side compared with what happens elsewhere. You probably need that mildness in order to have a habitable planet.” The Nice model is a hypothesis ...

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

A 3D model of the solar neighborhood, within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar ... Union reclassified it as a ‘dwarf planet’, and our Solar System dropped from having nine planets to eight.

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...