Solar Gardens, a new victory point game from Darrington Press, is going to make a great impression on casual and younger ...

Scientists found a mysterious rogue planet roaming aimlessly outside our solar system. What if it came closer?

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

For the first time in 15 years, you can see a game of shadows across Saturn. You won't see it again until 2040.

Unfortunately, If it were to swing too close to our solar system, it might just send our planet hurtling into the sun. It could even eject Earth out of the solar system completely.

Jun 04, 2025 Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' - studies predict A group of astronomers from across the globe have revealed new research showing that ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic mystery. Astronomers have cataloged a frozen minor planet called 2017 ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

The Quest For “Planet X” The idea that a distant, hidden planet might exist in our solar system has been around for a while. In the early days of 20th-century astronomy, icons such as Percival Lowell ...

With astronomers hot on the heels of Planet X, it might not be too long before our solar system jumps back up to having nine planets, again. While the study was focusing on 13 potential planets ...

Suppose Earth gained volatiles from carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites with compositions similar to the early solar system. Delivering just 5-10% of Earth's mass from these rocks would supply ...