Now, in a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, an international team of astronomers analyzed data collected by the European ...

The eight largest moons in our solar system are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Earth's Moon, Europa, Triton, and Titania. Ganymede is the largest, measuring 5,270 km in diameter.

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery of solar rain, a phenomenon where plasma clumps fall back to the Sun's surface.

Recent research suggests a warp in the orbital plane of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) between 80 and 400 AU, hinting at the gravitational influence of a potential Planet Y. This hypothetical planet, ...

Planet Nine, a mysterious celestial body, has long intrigued scientists for its potential to explain anomalous motions in the far reaches of the Solar System. At over 500 AU from the Sun, Planet ...

Current estimates suggest 3I/ATLAS may be up to 12 miles in diameter. According to physicist Marshall Eubanks, the object appears to be arriving from the thin galactic disk, the plane in which most ...

What is the solar system? MADDIE MOATE: The universe is vast. CHILD: Vast means really, really big! MADDIE: There are a lot of stars in our universe. And the sun is a star that gives out heat and ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...