Uranus is the strangest planet in the solar system when it comes to rotation, spinning almost completely on its side. Scientists believe something massive happened early in its history, possibly a ...

The curious minds at What If imagine what a single day would be like on every planet in our solar system, exploring how ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

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 ...

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

The findings, detailed in papers posted on arXiv, mark a rare scientific achievement for an object that formed around a star ...

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets." ...

Clips of a three-year-old Lego clock video that I'd not seen before just resurfaced, and it's making the rounds across social ...

China's planned Xihe-2 solar probe — set to launch between 2028 and 2029 and become the world's first spacecraft stationed at the Sun-Earth L5 point — will enable detection of solar active regions 4-5 ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

Researchers from China recently announced the creation of the largest quantum network in history to directly investigate the ...

Jupiter and Saturn host strikingly different polar storms, despite being similar giant planets, and scientists have long wondered why. New simulations suggest the answer may lie deep below the clouds.