The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Seven planets to appear simultaneously for last time until 2040 - Planetary parade will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn line up ...

TGL aims to be the new league of the year in ’25 but its fiscal approach will focus on television audiences and sponsorships ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

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When Andreas Dorau conquered the charts with "Fred vom Jupiter", he was 16. 45 years later, the Hamburg native has long since established himself in ...