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

Recent astronomical observations have thrown a curveball at our understanding of the cosmos. The solar system, it seems, is ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...

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

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

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Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...