Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Want to hear a real mind-bender? The rings of Saturn are super young. That is, by cosmic standards. While our solar system as ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

Scientists say America is no longer the only place with a Grand Canyon as NASA spots two enormous chasms carved into the ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense atmosphere formed.

Interestingly, the Moon may soon become home to a cutting-edge ... Reportedly, the Freedom data center will be powered by solar energy and utilize naturally cooled solid-state drives, making ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy title of 2004 GU9. Quasi-moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself with a star surrounded by a flat disc of planetary material orbiting in ...

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