A web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using only web standards. It’s fully animated — though Alex takes advantage of some new CSS 3 features (border ...

The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the nebula to collapse in on itself, forming a dense, hot ...

This image shows the locations of Voyagers 1 and 2. Voyager 1 is traveling a lot and has crossed into the heliosheath, the region where interstellar gas and solar wind start to mix. (Image credit ...

Our source at NASA tells us that they’d love to be using HTML5 to power Eyes on the Solar System, but that adoption of that standard across browsers hasn’t been very consistent, so don’t ...

Building the world's largest telescope 04:51. A powerful telescope focused on the sun has returned otherworldly, high-quality photos showing the surface of our solar system's star.. The telescope ...