Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...

They sometimes call it the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold. The habitable zone is the region of our Solar System ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

While that sounds like a huge distance, it is actually very close on a solar system scale: The closest planet to the sun, ...

Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.