The Solar System. It's no longer about the eight main planets anymore. Sorry Pluto. A new planet has entered the fray.

Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down the science of Jupiter's eternal storm, Saturn's iconic rings, and the frozen ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation ...