Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Europa is the best bet for a planet/moon in our solar system, apart from Earth, to harbour life. The goal of Europa Clipper’s mission is to learn if Europa is habitable for life as we know it.

"More than any other planet, Jupiter played a key role in shaping our solar system," Batygin said in a post on X. "Yet details of its early physical state are elusive." ...

The researchers looked at the orbits of the Moons to calculate Jupiter's original size, and found that just 3.8 million years after the first solid materials formed in the Solar System, Jupiter ...