A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.
The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...
The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around ...
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...
All the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. At certain points during these orbits, the Earth finds itself directly between the Sun and another planet. Tonight, it will be Jupiter's ...
Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern ...
whether or not the solar system formed this way is unclear. Although the planets formed from a protoplanetary disk — the inner planets (including Earth) in the hot region close to the sun and ...
NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.