NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...

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 ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

It's commonly known that a day on Earth lasts for 24 hours, but the truth behind what determines the length of a day is actually a bit complicated.

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar ...

Those rings, however, are going to “disappear” in 2025 . Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

New research suggests Venus, Earth's "evil twin," never had liquid water, challenging previous theories about its potential ...