From scorching planets to frozen giants, our solar system is full of extremes. Discover the forces that shaped these worlds and what they reveal about our place in the universe.

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

The two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, also have the largest satellite systems, or the most moons.

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

The deep interiors of ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune may contain a previously unknown form of matter, based on new computational research by Carnegie scientists Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen.

After a 10-year-old wrote to NASA begging for Pluto to be re-instated as a planet, Administrator Jared Isaacman appears to be ...

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The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

There are more moon missions, new ultra-powerful telescopes, groundbreaking probes and more reasons to keep your eyes on the ...

Scientists confirmed that an exoplanet mirrors its star’s chemical makeup, validating a core assumption about how planets ...

The Artemis II crew captured images of the moon's far side, a historic first. But why is it that we only ever side on side of ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto was declassified as the ninth planet in our solar system, and many people wish it had never ...