"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

"That now applies to the outer solar system planets ... and it likely influenced the formation of the inner terrestrial planets. Such estimates of the early magnetic field are based on meteorites ...

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus ... According to NASA, all of the ...