Explore the Solar System in this video, which demonstrates the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun. Music: Big Screen by Silent Partner Created with Blender 2.73 ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the history of the solar system tells its own story of ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Space looks empty until you try to cross it. Far beyond Pluto, where sunlight is faint and the planets are long behind, ...

New forecasts are helping scientists pinpoint one of the most elusive locations in space: the outer boundary of the Sun’s ...

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are using a solar wind forecasting method combined with analytic and numerical ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

During the height of the Space Race, space exploration occupied a much larger place in American culture and education.

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form. This artist's concept ...