Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...

The curious minds at What If imagine what a single day would be like on every planet in our solar system, exploring how ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Scientists have identified phenomena in deep space that can act as naturally occurring “space weather stations” far beyond our solar system.

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...