This video explores how scientists determine the ages of planets and which worlds formed first, based on planetary formation, ...

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...

Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...

1.3 billion years ago, two orbiting massive black holes, circling each other at 250 times a second, collided in a violent, ...

NASA has reported a X4.2 solar flare, so what does it mean? We break down what a solar flare is and how it connects to the ...

Scientists have discovered that Jupiter contains more oxygen than previously thought, hidden beneath its impenetrable cloud storms, according to a new computational model.

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

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The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...