Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

Our Sun contains 99.86% of the Solar System's known mass The mass of the Sun is 1.989 × 10 30 kg when all the planets combined are only 2.66 x 10 27 kg. The hottest planet is actually not the one ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...

A future solar statite would need to be made with some pretty stern stuff to survive just sitting in that blazing heat. But if aerospace engineers can overcome these limitations, humanity could be ...

Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms ... In 2016, astronomers found a planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth in this system, called Proxima Centauri.