The hunt for Planet Nine continues as new discoveries make the Solar System’s biggest mystery even harder to solve. Is there ...

Hold a carbonaceous chondrite and you’re holding a piece of the solar system’s infancy — a fragment of rock that predates Earth, assembled from dust when the planets were still taking shape.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it’s kept our star system well organized through the influence of its powerful gravity. All the planets revolve around it on ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...