NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

A new study suggests the planet’s iconic domes owe their strange shape to both thick lava and a flexible surface.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

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

Venus is already one of the hottest planets in the solar system, but NASA has just detected a sudden, unexplained heat wave ...

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

NASA had a surprise in store for planetary ... and why it’s currently habitable, when other [rocky planets] in our solar system are not.” One spacecraft, called DAVINCI+, will study the ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

China launches Tianwen-2 to collect asteroid samples and chase a rare comet, marking a bold leap in its high-stakes Solar System exploration mission.

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

During the birth of the solar system ... It was visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft between 2011 and 2012, when data was collected that has now caused planetary scientists to flip-flop on the ...