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

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 ...

It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

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

This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an enigma 243 years later. And some of what we thought we knew about it turns out to be off the mark. Much of the knowledge ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the ...

"Solar system formation models ... what element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can tell us about the formation of planets. We already have our eyes on Uranus -- NASA's next target ...