Interstellar visitors don’t have this problem because they were never part of the solar system’s plane to begin with.

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

An object from deep space is moving through our solar system — and scientists are paying far closer attention than most ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

The presence of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed in a much colder place before our solar system existed.

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn’t in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Rooftop solar has become one of the fastest-growing clean ...