A team of researchers is challenging our understanding of the Solar System planets interior. The composition of Uranus and ...

For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge ...

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...

Perihelion, the point in a planet’s orbit where it is closest to the Sun, is a fascinating phenomenon that shapes much of our understanding of planetary motion. While Earth’s proximity to the Sun ...

A new study published in Planet reveals a Micro-XRD method to quantitatively measure the ancient collision histories of ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...