The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. The gas giant features beautiful banded cloud layers, a set of thin, dusty rings, the famous Great Red Spot and ...

An interstellar visitor is barreling closer to our sun, giving scientists a rare opportunity to observe an object from outside our celestial backyard. The comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third known object ...

With so many interesting solar system facts, we've narrowed them down to 25 of our favorites. Our solar system consists of the sun and everything that orbits that sun, like the eight (once nine) ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...

Our solar system is only one out of hundreds of stellar systems residing in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s comprised of the Sun and eight known planets, half of which are Terrestrial (sporting solid, ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission focused on studying changes in the exosphere, the Earth’s outermost ...

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than the laws of modern physics predict, and a new study may help to explain why. A thin disk of gas and dust — known as an accretion disk — spirals ...

Facts you didn't know about our solar systemGanymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, hides a salty ocean under its surface. It might even hold more water than Earth. Jupiter’s moon may have more water than ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...