The universe, as Douglas Adams so memorably explained, is big. Really big. But so are the things inside it -- even objects like the Solar System, which on a galactic scale are absolutely minuscule. A ...

At this very moment, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of its third lap around the Sun. Since its launch last August, the spacecraft has been furiously collecting data for Earthlings eager to ...

The solar wind is made mostly of pure awesome. It is an always-changing, poorly predictable flow of charged particles from the Sun: a giant exhalation right into our faces. It's responsible for the ...

I did my very first presentation when I was 15 years old. It was about the Solar System at the time when Pluto had yet to be "pluto-ed". Because I was such an astronomy enthusiast back then, I also ...

Banner image: A glass block marks Saturn's spot in the solar system in a new scale model on the CU Boulder campus. (Credit: CU Boulder) Have you ever wanted to travel to Neptune? Thanks to an updated ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...