A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

A Bay Area solar nonprofit estimates that a set of plug-in solar panels can save renters $500 annually on energy bills.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

At the far edge of the Solar System, where the Sun’s influence thins into the dark between the stars, a pair of aging ...

NASA’s CGS releases the MAGE model to improve space weather prediction, providing simulations of solar storms, auroras, and ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...