Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Some of the strongest evidence that points to the existence of a planet within the outskirts of the solar system is the activity within the Kuiper Belt, an unusual clustering of icy bodies ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers have captured the most detailed images of the Sun to date using a new camera ...

Could other inner planets host life - or have hosted it in the past? This episode examines scientific data on Mars’s ancient river valleys, Venus’s vanished oceans, and Earth’s fine-tuned conditions.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A year ago this weekend, the sun’s activity ... our planet and deflects much of the most dangerous emissions. The risks of solar activity stretch throughout the solar system, however.

"I don't see an inner solar system in which we don't significantly develop the moon if you're going to go anywhere." ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was ... they impart to a growing planet excite a spectrum of seismic modes." They explain that once this seismic activity is activated, it can ...

A new study in Nature reveals that Earth’s core may not be sealed shut after all. German geochemists have discovered traces of core-derived precious metals like ruthenium in volcanic rocks from Hawaii ...