How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

NASA’s Solar System Exploration website notes these names, rooted in Latin, persisted due to historical inertia despite varied ancient names.

Scientists have uncovered surprising new behavior of Jupiter that directly affects Earth in ways we are only beginning to ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, hides a past very different from its current appearance. A recent study ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

"It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at the dawn of its existence," stated Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy on May 20, 2025, uncovers that Jupiter was once twice its present size ...