In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Did you and your community feel an “eclipse effect” on April 8, 2024? When the moon’s shadow swept across North America that day, it plunged about 50 million people — and thousands of communities — ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that ...