Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... 26, 2024 — Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of our Solar System. The planet sizes tested were 1 percent of Earth's mass, ...