Since the 1970s, exploratory spacecraft rocketing out into the universe have revealed that auroras paint the skies of nearly ...

Starfield’s representation of our little corner of ... observed by spacecraft like Cassini and Juno. Of course, Bethesda’s imagining of the solar system is not meant to be a carbon copy ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Here's what it would look like: Of course, that does not look like our solar system. The reason is that the cloud of dust that formed our solar system started off with a slight rotation.

Earth-based observers are fortunate enough to witness our ... like we find on similar small worlds.” Currently, the sample return is set for 2031. But until then, astronomers can use Martian ...

If you want to experience a scientific phenomenon in 2024, you may be in luck. On April 8, a total solar eclipse is expected to pass over he United States, Mexico and Canada. Nearly 28% of the U.S ...

NARRATOR: What secrets do these wandering worlds reveal about our solar system? And what else is ... covered in strange grooves. Phobos looks like someone has ridden a giant bike all over it.

How our own Solar System came to be ... out of one such fragment over about 100,000 years. What does a presolar nebula look like? Something like this. The Hubble space telescope captured these ...

What does the "typical" exosolar system look like? We know it's not likely to look like our own Solar System, given that our familiar planets don't include entire classes of planets (Hot Jupiters!