Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our ...

Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around two million years ago, Earth underwent a series of temperature fluctuations ...

Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Let me tell you just how volcanic it is.

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...