New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping the early solar system...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping the early solar system...

Our planet Jupiter enabled and then organized the architecture of our inner solar system, including the formation of planet Earth, planetary...

Our planet Jupiter enabled and then organized the architecture of our inner solar system, including the formation of planet Earth, planetary...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its star's habitable zone....

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its star's habitable zone....

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the...

Here's what it says about the future of our own solar system. A dead star core about 145 light-years away in space is doing anything but resting in...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a cosmic divider, separating...

A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than the hypothesized Planet...