Cornell University astronomers studying Jupiter's moon Io say tidal heating may help support life in the oceans of Jupiter's ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

Scientists have proposed a fascinating new idea: Earth may have once possessed a ring system, akin to that of Saturn. These ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

Snapchat Friend Solar System is a premium feature that lets you visualize your closest friends as planets that revolve around ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Because they're surrounded by foul-smelling gases that are incompatible with the human sense of smell, living on the surface ...