Explore 25 crazy facts about our solar system! Uncover mind-blowing phenomena like diamond rain, backward-spinning planets, ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission has successfully tested a new method for predicting ...

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space and ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Ancient rocks collected from the far side of the moon are giving scientists a fresh look at the violent history of our solar ...

The source of Earth's water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, Earth's water was either part of the planet from the beginning of its ...

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form.

Astronomers say they are one step closer to finding a habitable, Earth-like planet beyond our solar system with the discovery of an atmosphere on a rocky planet.