Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the Sun in slightly eccentric (or oblong) orbits. Scientists now think that a mysterious object ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

I sent an internal memo to my team about the evolution and role of software in distributed PV energy generation. Now, I'm ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

Keep your eyes on the sky. Six planets in our solar system are coming into alignment and will be visible from Earth. AccuWeather says Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will be visible ...

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.