The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The 7 fastest planets in the solar system, ranked by their orbital speeds around the Sun, are as follows: Mercury is the fastest planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun at an average speed of 47.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

The formation of planets is not completely understood, but it is believed that it is not just gravity pulling matter together ...

Our solar system consists of Sun and celestial bodies bound to it by gravity, including planets, moons, asteroids, and comets ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...