The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. The gas giant features beautiful banded cloud layers, a set of thin, dusty rings, the famous Great Red Spot and ...

With so many interesting solar system facts, we've narrowed them down to 25 of our favorites. Our solar system consists of the sun and everything that orbits that sun, like the eight (once nine) ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...

Our solar system is only one out of hundreds of stellar systems residing in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s comprised of the Sun and eight known planets, half of which are Terrestrial (sporting solid, ...

Astronomers have identified an interstellar comet entering our solar system, sparking excitement and intrigue within the scientific community. This rare event offers a unique opportunity to study an ...

Facts you didn't know about our solar systemGanymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, hides a salty ocean under its surface. It might even hold more water than Earth. Jupiter’s moon may have more water than ...

The inner solar system spins much more slowly than the laws of modern physics predict, and a new study may help to explain why. A thin disk of gas and dust — known as an accretion disk — spirals ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...