The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

A new study of a forming planet shows it doesn't match the chemical makeup of its birth disk, challenging pas theories on how ...

TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost planet, was recently observed in depth by JWST in the mid-infrared, a type of light to which our ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

If planet X exists, it is likely a gas giant similar to Neptune. NASA/Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC), CC BY Our solar system is a particularly crowded place. Millions of objects move within it, whether they ...

Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten glimpses of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.

we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets.” Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and ...

For a long time, children learning about space in school were taught that there were nine planets in our solar system. Then, we lost Pluto after it was demoted to a dwarf planet back in 2006 and ...

Discover what the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program has learned about the outer planets, including Jupiter, ...