Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for ...

“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...