Our solar system is filled with moons, planets, comets, and all manner of objects in space. But amidst all that bustling of activity, there’s also quite a few ships and satellites out there exploring ...

Most charts of the Solar System we enjoy are terrible lies. This is because they're not to scale: It's easier to clump everything together so that all of the planets and stars fit neatly into an image ...

As NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 unmanned deep space probes head out of the Solar System, they are in territory that is the very definition of "uncharted." To help fill in the map, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The size of the solar system is defined by the volume ...