Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans ...

The sun’s solar wind, made of charged particles, interacts with powerful eruptions, affecting cosmic rays and space weather.

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

His model could be applied to solar storms that impact technology in space. Do started working on charged particles three years ago during an undergraduate research project at the Harvard ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest moon Charon.