Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...

A provocative latest essay by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited debate over whether interstellar objects passing ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of ...

Explore mind-blowing revelations about our solar system, from the moon's strange rusting to the true distance to Jupiter.

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

Look up at the night sky and among the stars you might see a few brighter dots — the planets in our solar system. What you won’t see, though, are the most common kinds of planets in the Milky Way: ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with atmosphere, they have a wide range of characteristics distinguishing them. But if ...