Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

Carrying out simulations to try and discover what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a model that ...

Earth's name, unlike other planets named after Greco-Roman deities, originates from Old English "eorþe," meaning soil or ...

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is ...

Spinning in only about 35,700 seconds, its day is the shortest in our solar system, and it only has a 3-degree tilt, so it ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

The research team's simulations indicate a 1 in 100 chance that an interstellar visitor could produce the orbits we see today ...