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 ...

The planets of our solar system orbit in a thin, orderly plane, but beyond this familiar disc lies a vast and complex cosmic environment that reshapes how we understand space itself. From the ...

The Planetary Society today endorsed the call by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Democrat Ralph Hall (D-TX) to defer the decision to start development of the ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...

Four planets are set to align in April this year, but will the alignment coincide with the total solar eclipse passing over 13 states next month? On April 4, 2024, four planets will align on the same ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...