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

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

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

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

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

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

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

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Experts from University College London say that the mysteries surrounding Uranus may have been the result of a powerful solar ...