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

Discover what the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program has learned about the outer planets, including Jupiter, ...

Since the formation of the Solar System, the orbits of the planets have evolved and changed over time. While one of the most prominent ideas in the last few decades is planetary migrations and the ...

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

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

Weather permitting, Jupiter will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be ...

Do we have a planetary bias when it comes to understanding where life can perpetuate? It's only natural that we do. After all ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

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The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

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New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...