What if the Saturn V never slowed down and simply kept flying toward the edge of the Solar System? This thought experiment follows the most powerful rocket ever built on an impossible journey past ...

A research team led by the University of Arizona has reconstructed in unprecedented detail the history of a dust grain that formed during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago.

Europe’s Rosetta cometary probe has been successfully launched into an orbit around the Sun, which will allow it to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after three flybys of the Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OIL CITY — Public Night at the Oil Region Astronomy Learning Center, home of the Bedow Memorial Observatory, will be held Saturday ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, ...

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minnesota – If the chorus of “wows” and “ohs” was any indication, the “sky dome” was a big hit among students Thursday, March 16 at South Point Elementary School. In the gymnasium, ...