A sped up animation of the solar sail unfurling in space, a process that takes about 25 minutes to complete. Gif: NASA NASA’s experimental solar sail is ready to take flight in Earth orbit ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, featuring fun and educational space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

This visualization closely follows the Moon's umbra shadow as it crosses North America during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. It covers the one hour and 50 minutes between 10:57 a.m ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where you can enjoy entertaining space animations that educate about the solar system and the universe ...

Astronomer James O'Donoghue works at Japan's space agency and makes animations in his free time. His simple, short, award-winning videos illustrate the physics of our solar system. O'Donoghue's ...

Our solar system is in one of the galaxy’s spiral arms and the whole arm travels together around the galaxy, including the other stars in our “neighborhood,” Christiansen said.

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...

For the first time in history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown through a region of the Sun where explosive magnetic ...

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...