The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

Transformative Travel: I look at how travel can change lives. Eclipse fever is running high as the U.S. gears up for a total solar eclipse that will pass across a huge swath of the country on April 8.

The corona is so hot that the sun’s gravity can’t hold it, so particles are flung off into space and travel throughout the solar system in every direction. As the sun spins, burns and burps, it ...

In astronomy, what does retrograde mean? And what connection does it have to astrology? We explain how planets move across ...

Taranpreet:Our Planet, Earth, is in The Solar system. Maddie Moate:Mercury is a rocky planet, with large round ditches that we callcraters. Mercury takes about about 88 days to travel around thesun.

Solar System dynamicists worked out that if the probe ... followed by a tour of the trailing cluster in 2033. The total travel distance is over 6 billion km (4 billion miles).

On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...