In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets. Now, over 45 years later, these incredible ...

Therefore, this study holds the potential to use gas giant planets within our solar system as analogs for exoplanets throughout the cosmos. For the study, the researchers analyzed data collected from ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

meaning they are pristine samples of the material from which the Solar System formed. The implications extend beyond our ...

Although there have been claims for other exomoons (moons beyond the Solar System), these are now under considerable question, so this is probably the strongest evidence we have for such a first.

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.

The discovery of mysterious objects beyond the known Kuiper Belt could point to a complex structure at the edge of our Solar ...

Morgan L. Cable, who has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech, has multiple team leadership roles on the Europa ...