The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Scientists have recently proposed the existence of “Planet Y,” a hidden Earth-sized world that could be lurking in our solar ...

Blasting around the equators of the solar system's giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are fierce jet ...

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions.

Earth has a long, 4.5 billion history full of momentous twists and turns. Multiple prominent events played leading roles in ...