Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

All objects in the solar system orbit the Sun. Some move quickly ... just as the Moon shines by reflecting sunlight at night. The Moon shines at night because it reflects sunlight. If planet X exists, ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...

A new computer model developed by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics can be used to detect and measure interior ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

A new theory proposes that Phobos and Deimos resulted from the wreckage of a larger asteroid that wandered too close to Mars ...

A team of scientists from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, TU Delft, and Caltech has developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and ...

A mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past two months will peel away from our planet's orbit today (Nov. 25) as it prepares for a decades-long jaunt through the solar system.

Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Curiosity rover, agency reveals Live Science 1d ...