Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

Point Galaxy is an outer space riff on Point Salad, twisting that board game's score-focused play without overcomplicating it ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided the most accurate measurements of Jupiter's size and shape, revealing it is slightly smaller than previously thought. This research enhances understanding of the ...

For years, astronomers have suspected there’s a massive unseen world hiding far beyond Neptune — Planet 9. This video breaks ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

For over a century, scientists have suspected there could be a hidden planet lurking far beyond Neptune—massive enough to ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.