A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards ... and it's not bad to have another ring planet in our solar system. NARRATOR: It seems Mars will one day be transformed ...

Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists ... and Uranus earned a ...

Tree rings reveal ancient solar storms, helping scientists predict and prepare for future events that could disrupt ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...

Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring ... is a super-Earth planet in the distant solar system, but ...

Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug ... system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical ...

By contrast, the Earth's Grand Canyon is a mere 29 ... Excerpted from "Daydreaming in the Solar System: Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration." ...