The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

NASA scientists were stunned when a strange radio signal from the Sun refused to fade away. Instead of lasting a few hours or ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

The presence of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed in a much colder place before our solar system existed.

Mashable’s Ranked series crowns the best and sorts the rest. The planets of our solar system, stretching from Mercury out to Neptune, are all incredible. In a dense cloud of gas and dust billions of ...

Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...