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 ...

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

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

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 ...

Sins Of A Solar Empire II is a real-time strategy game with many traditional 4X elements (Explore, Expand, Exploit, ...

With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life ... with a list of 57 stars in close enough range to our solar system for ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...