It's no surprise that space is massive, but even getting to the furthest planet from Earth within our own solar system would ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

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 ...

An object up to dozens of times the mass of Jupiter flying through our solar system may have disrupted planetary orbits.

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 ...

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