It’s hard to believe, but it’s already been more than 2000 years since humanity first not only discovered that planet Earth is round in shape, but was able to ... Even many of the non-planets in our ...

Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System.

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

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest ... Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval in shape. The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects together, and the ...

never happened as a result of the fictional world not being real. But researchers have long wondered what the impact might be if another world were to be added to our solar system. In particular ...

So, what if I told you that astrophysicists think there's one lurking in our very own solar system? Reporter: Then a new discovery rocked the astronomical world to its foundation. Narrator ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...