Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on a Grand Tour of the outer solar system, a feat made ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

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Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...