Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe." Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

Texas startup Janta Power has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its next-generation solar power towers, a vertical alternative to flat solar farms. The funding round was led by MaC ...

After being closed for more than a month due to the government shutdown, Smithsonian museums are set to reopen on a rolling basis starting Friday, Nov. 14. The National Museum of American History, the ...

This holiday season, the Smithsonian Store is spreading winter cheer with a curated collection of gifts inspired by the wonder and treasures found across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums and the National ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are welcoming members of the public back after weeks of closures because of the government shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which receives federal ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS. It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...