Each planet and moon in our Solar System poses unique challenges, from deadly heat and toxic skies to crushing gravity and ...

Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but its atmosphere is one of the harshest in the Solar System. NASA’s DAVINCI probe will dive into those clouds to search for chemical clues that could point to ...

You know, if you think about it, and trust me we're about to, the moon is kind of weird. Of all the terrestrial worlds of the ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August ...

In June, scientists spotted an odd object hurtling toward our solar system. 3I/ATLAS is likely the size of Manhattan. Unlike ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an unexpected frontal glow that Harvard's Avi Loeb says cannot be explained by sunlight ...

Tidal forces from Earth, Venus and Jupiter may help keep the sun calm, reducing the risk of powerful solar storms that ...

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in the northern hemisphere.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is ...

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a runaway greenhouse effect.