The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

A molten planet is a planetary object; a surface or deep interior of which is mostly or wholly in a liquid-rock (magma) form ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...