Solar System

Mars is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, but the Red Planet may be tallying another supervolcano...

The space probe Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 (after leaving Earth back in 2011), and it's mostly known for sending back...

Mars may be named after the Roman god of war, but Venus is a much more hostile planet, with high pressures and an average surface...

Mercury is special among the planets in our solar system for a number of reasons (not least because Han Solo has been spotted frozen...

No, it's not Pluto. Unfortunately for die-hard astronomy fans, Pluto is still languishing in its dwarf planet classification, and now...

Ever wondered what makes the Earth so different than, say, Jupiter or Saturn?Why is our planet rocky and covered in water, when other...

Back in 2015, astronomers first learned that a nearby star came within 0.8 lightyears of our own solar system about 70,000 years...

Mars has been at the center of attention for years now, but most people still don't know about Tharsis, a massive volcanic plateau...

As NASA's Juno probe continues to circle around Jupiter, we continue to get amazing shots of the many storms on the gas giant's...

The Milky Way galaxy might be dead... It just hasn't stopped moving yet.

NASA has watched their Dawn spacecraft orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres for about three years, deciding to keep it there...

Some things in our solar system never change. Saturn? It has those cool rings. Neptune? Has that cool blue color. Jupiter? Has a giant...

NASA's New Horizons space probe is currently flying through the farthest outskirts of our solar system, having recently left a close...

Ever since the Juno space probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016, we've been learning some absolutely fascinating things about the distant...

While it's always cool to see a detailed photograph of planets like Saturn, sometimes our space probes are capable of more artsy...

Getting up early is always a difficult experience. It can be disheartening to have to climb out of bed while it's still dark out and...

All things considered, the Earth is small--very small. Out of the thousands of exoplanets we've found over the past few years, only a...

When staring at a picture of Saturn, it's easy to get so distracted by all the rings that you don't notice the bizarre hexagon-shaped...

Enceladus has always fascinated scientists and those hunting for the possibility of alien life, even if it's never really caught the...

Last September marked the end of an era for NASA, as their long-running Cassini spacecraft finally ended its mission that gave us...