When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Scientists say that 3I/ATLAS has likely been traveling through interstellar space for a long time. Based on how fast it was ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

Could you survive a day on every planet in our solar system? Experience the extreme conditions across the planets in a single ...

A colossal comet from another star is ripping through our solar system right now. Designated 3I/Atlas, this behemoth is up to ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...