NASA’s Juno spacecraft has reshaped key ideas about Jupiter. Data collected during the probe’s polar orbits reveal a planet with jet streams plunging thousands of kilometers deep, a lopsided magnetic ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

Detection of hydrogen sulfide in four HR 8799 gas giants provides evidence of solid accretion, clarifying how massive exoplanets form and distinguishing them from brown dwarfs ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Predicted to reach perihelion again in 2028, it will give astronomers a chance to get additional insights.

Scientists have discovered that Saturn's moon Enceladus creates a massive electromagnetic wake, revealing its major influence ...

The upcoming annular solar eclipse will be the first since 2024. During the event, the moon's shadow will carve a path 383 ...

A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.