The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the universe and its evolution.

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin influences its shape, atmosphere, and extreme weather patterns, including the ...

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Eleven objects found at the extremities of the solar system could mark the location of a 'Kuiper Belt 2.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is soon going to be closest to the Sun in its journey through our solar system. Here are five facts that shed light on this phenomenon.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for ...

CLEVELAND — With so much focus on the total solar eclipse right now, I thought some stellar solar system facts would shake up your universe. Let me take you back to grade school and the solar system ...

This great big solar system has plenty of secrets to tell. Just recently, NASA’s new James Webb Telescope dazzled us mere earthlings with the first images released to date of galaxies eons in the past ...

Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet in its outermost reaches. It is possible that a giant planet lurks in the Oort cloud, which begins hundreds of billions of kilometres beyond Pluto and ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million miles per hour as it traverses to the edge of interstellar space bathing ...