Scientists have discovered that our entire solar system is racing through the Milky Way far faster than current models ...

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

SHINE. MORE FROM THE JUST HOW FAR IS IT FILE FOLKS LIVING IN PRESQUE ISLE AROOSTOOK BIGGEST TOWN, ARE FARTHER NORTH THAN HALF OF ALL CANADIANS. THE MAJORITY OF WHOM LIVE ALONG CANADA’S SOUTHERN BORDER ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

A scale model of the solar system, with each planet depicted in relief on individual square granite markers installed atop concrete bases embedded in the ground. Each planet bears a laser etched ...

Learn what the first maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary reveal about solar wind and its escape into space.

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...