We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Uranus, the third-largest planet in our solar system, has always been something ... including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results of that 1986 visit indicated that Uranus’s ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

Interestingly amongst the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a thick atmosphere. Titan is also larger than the planet Mercury and it is mostly made of nitrogen just ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...