Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

The fledgling orb, named TI-DYE 1b, is estimated to be three million years old, making it a potential Rosetta Stone for ...

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets. Now, over 45 years later, these incredible probes are detecting something mysterious beyond the edge of our solar ...

NASA's Voyager 1 is continuing its journey beyond our solar system, 45 years after it was launched. But now the veteran spacecraft is sending back strange data, puzzling its engineers. NASA said ...

8, 2014 and detected by U.S. Department of Defense sensors likely came from beyond our solar system. So strongly did they believe this that they even mounted a private, cryptocurrency-funded ...

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt) is a disc-shaped region beyond the orbit ... new TNOs could revolutionize our theories about how the solar system formed,” said Lykawka.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas trapped in ...