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

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Whether its pioneering spirit and an urge to explore or a chance to make a fortune or new life out in space, colonization of our solar system may pursue many strategies across many new worlds.

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

"The suggestion of an ocean inside one of the most distant moons in the solar system is remarkable," a researcher said.

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

NARRATOR: And of all the worlds in our Solar System, ours hits the icy jackpot. The ice we have here on Earth is special. And if it didn't have its special properties, life on Earth would not ...