"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

The team, led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University, found that the universe is, in fact, moving more than ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...

Solar System distances to scale, showing the newly discovered 2018 AG37, nicknamed "Farfarout," compared to other known Solar System objects, including the previous record holder 2018 VG18 "Farout", ...

Astronomers discovered a planetoid orbiting the sun further than any known object in the solar system. Called "Farfarout," the object orbits the sun every 1,000 years. Objects like Farfarout could ...