Discover the fascinating feature of WASP-69 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet with a comet-like tail of gas, shedding light on ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for 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 ...

The solar system, long believed to be a relatively stable and isolated system of planets, moons, and distant bodies, may have ...

Carrying out simulations to try and discover what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a model that ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

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 ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

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

Extrasolar gas giant planets are a necessary stop on the road to finding life elsewhere in the cosmos. Here's why we need to ...

Massive object passing through solar system is a better explanation for nature of orbits of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune ...