In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version ...

The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued tracking an Atlantic system moving toward the Caribbean but no longer expects it to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. As of ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Another chaotic day of travel for BART commuters caused by a computer equipment issue extended nearly into Friday afternoon before the transit agency resumed full service following a full-system ...

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Scientists are closely monitoring the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it moves across our solar system. The object could be twice as big as Manhattan, says Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, and will come ...

Astronomers continue to track the third-ever discovered interstellar object, comet 3I/ATLAS, using powerful telescopes and spacecraft as it moves through our cosmic neighborhood. Just last week, the ...

The Navy, working with Skydweller Aero, just reached a major milestone in clean-energy aviation. Its solar-powered drone, known as Skydweller, flew for 73 hours straight without needing fuel. The test ...

Researchers note that Bennu has preserved clues about the solar system's very earliest days. Stardust Older Than the Sun According to a trio of recently published papers, scientists analysed Bennu's ...