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

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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.

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

For observers in India, Neptune will be visible throughout most of the night on September 20-21, rising in the east just as the sun sets in the west.

Scientists creating a gravity map of Mars have discovered the presence of mysterious large-scale structures hidden beneath a ...

We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...

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

Out of This World Mars, unlike other planets in the Solar System, has a triaxial shape, meaning that the red planet is not a ...

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