The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther ... a ...

TIM:When I was up on the ISS, that different perspective really brought home the sheer scale of the universe. The vastness of our Solar System and the distances involved is something that's hard ...

planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth. Our planet is just the right distance from the ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.