Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

This article lists the top 7 largest moons in our Solar System, detailing their size, the planet they orbit, and key ...

Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin influences its shape, atmosphere, and extreme weather patterns, including the ...

Jupiter would need 80 times its current mass to ignite as a star, with gravity that could fling Earth out of the solar system ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...