Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

You’d think we’d have the solar system pretty well figured out by now. It’s our own cosmic backyard, after all. […] ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...

Venus, on the other hand, is the second closest planet to the Sun and orbits 67 million miles away from the sun. But it's the hottest planet in the solar system.

She and her team published their findings Sept. 29 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research takes a deep dive into one of the most mysterious, and inhospitable, bodies in the solar ...

No other planet in the solar system comes as close to matching Earth. In fact, until the middle of the 20th century, many scientists suspected that Venus was a near twin to Earth.

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction to most planets. A Venusi ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

JEN GUPTA: Studying volcanoes in the solar system is incredibly important. It can help answer that question of where you and I came from and even how life first began.