Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

The simulation shows turbulent ... was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V rocket into a geosynchronous orbit, the observatory is one of many ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go around Earth in a low orbit ... of the Solar System and lower the barrier ...

As a result, thousands of smaller celestial bodies in the outer solar system outside Neptune's orbit were deflected into ...

Planetary science is the study of the celestial bodies that orbit stars, with a particular focus on our own solar system. This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons ...

Mini-moons are asteroids or space debris that temporarily enter Earth’s gravitational influence, moving into orbit for weeks or months before being flung back into the solar system. While Earth ...

25 before returning to the solar system. Some past mini-moons ... and remain that way for 56.6 days. In Dunn's simulation, the orbit is shown as the red line, and it only circles about 25% ...