They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

This week, a beautiful lineup of Saturn, Venus and the moon will rise before the sun, and adorn the night sky. All three ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

However, unlike in this artist's illustration, they do not normally emit visible ... the faint green lights are believed to be the first auroras anywhere in the solar system to be captured using only ...

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

A new study has revealed that Jupiter—our solar system’s largest planet—was once even more enormous than it is today. In fact ...

Scientists studying the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan have discovered a mysterious, gyroscopic motion they can't quite explain.