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"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

Scientists previously thought the solar system was flying through space at 515,000 mph. It may actually be going three times ...

Learn about the solar system in our new What If song. Explore planets, moons, and cosmic wonders through music and ...

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L.

Guest: Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University and author of Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

The Solar Orbiter was placed in an orbit tilted compared with the Solar System’s plane. This new path allowed it to see what no spacecraft had seen before.