Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the reddest. That honor goes to Amalthea, a tiny moon orbiting around massive gas giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Juno spacecraft ...

The solar system's giant planets are famous for their many ... For instance, few have a very red color. But the new study, ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

Although most simulations created conditions very unlike the current solar system, the researchers found that in approximately 1% of the simulations, the visitor's passage altered the giant ...

That is exactly what seems to be lurking in binary system G3425, estimated to be around 5,800 light-years away. The visible ...

This is possible both through interaction with the nebula formed during the red giant stage, as well as through gravitational interactions between planets. Our own solar system, for example ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...