Researchers have been focusing on the study of our solar system for centuries, looking at the physics, dynamics, as well as the composition of solar system bodies. Our solar system – which includes ...

The Solar System is much more than a collection of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. It is our home in the cosmos. The Solar System's only star, which we call the Sun, plays a role in nearly ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dust speck had been plucked from the tail of a comet more than 200 million miles away. Now, under an electron microscope ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define solar objects.

(Image: The Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in the constellation Sagittarius, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.) The prevailing theory of the formation of the solar system is that a large, nearby supernova ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Astronomically, bodies within the Solar System must achieve three ...

When we think of Earth and its neighboring planets orbiting around our common host star, we picture the center of the Solar System as smack in the middle of the Sun. However, that's not entirely true, ...