New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Community solar supports renewable energy development and can contribute to local job growth, offering a way to support ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

Fomalhaut’s eccentric ring has been the focus of intense scrutiny for nearly two decades, and it keeps giving astronomers new ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...