In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

The atmospheric carbon dioxide was thought to be the result of the oxidation of oxygen molecules in the exosphere. As a ...

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...