Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

Could you survive a day on every planet in our solar system? Experience the extreme conditions across the planets in a single ...

New evidence shows that, far beyond Pluto, there may exist a hypothetical planet referred to as Planet X or Planet Nine.

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

NASA’s latest mission, designed to study the effects of the solar wind on the atmosphere of Mars, was ironically delayed on ...