Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of new studies trying to ...

Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.

The article humorously ranks planets based on wealth, characterizing Jupiter as the richest due to its massive size and ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains ...

On February 18, 2007, the Samjhauta Express train carrying hundreds of Indians and Pakistanis across the border was bombed by ...