Escaping Earth may sound appealing, until you realize the rest of the solar system wants you dead. On today’s episode of The ...

Beyond the asteroid belt lies a realm of giants, rings, and frozen mysteries. This video tours the colossal storms of Jupiter, the graceful rings of Saturn, the sideways tilt of Uranus, and the ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

Researchers studied the data closely and suggested a few possible ideas about the planet’s atmosphere and surface.

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

The Moon formed from a giant impact of the proto-Earth with the ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new study, a team of scientists from the United States, Germany, France and China measured iron isotopes ...