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 ...

Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

(CNN) - New spectacular images of Jupiter are being shared for the first time. A bevy of “mind-blowing” images are shedding new light on the solar system’s biggest planet and doing it in the most ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...

of the second planet from the Sun. “We’re reaching the crescendo of Parker’s incredible voyage through the inner solar system ...

Newly released images from NASA's Juno spacecraft provide an unprecedented look at Jupiter, revealing stunning details of the ...

In extreme cases, CMEs observed by the MESSENGER spacecraft have compressed Mercury’s dayside magnetosphere to the planet ... evolution in the inner heliosphere and their interaction with planetary ...

If the sun were to explode in such a fashion, it would obviously be bad news for Earth and every other object in the solar ...

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