A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system, sparking debate with its strange shape, speed, and ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its ...

Related: 10 incredible volcanoes in our solar system The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the ...

How our own Solar System came to be ... in direction between those forces is enough to create an axis of rotation: an eddy, transient on cosmological time scales, with a vortex at its center.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...