Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ice giants. In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars have Trojans. "We think it is about 9 miles (15 kilometers ...

Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is a greenhouse gas that is approximately 270 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet ...

Despite the urgent need to cut fossil fuel pollution to tackle the human-caused climate crisis, there is “no sign” of a ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

The birth of a planet starts with a microscopic ... will hoover up hydrogen and helium to become a gas giant or amass dust to transform into a terrestrial world like Earth. It all starts with ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...