A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

It would depend on a lot, say our readers, from how big it was to the route it took - but it could have significant ...

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

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...