If you didn't know, Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. Let's explain ...

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

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

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

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Solar and cosmochemical data indicate high levels of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Sun. Researchers have unveiled a new ...

Scientists may have explained a mystery that has puzzled us about Uranus for decades. Researchers believe that data that ...

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".

Why? When Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was long considered as the solar system’s ninth planet. Each of the planets in the solar system, with the exception of Earth, have been named after ...

If you wish to see the climate glass as dangerously empty, read this year’s Global Carbon Budget report by 119 global ...