In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

Why do all the planets orbit in nearly the same plane? This episode explores the birth of the solar system from a collapsing ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

The rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is under intense scrutiny as it passes through the solar system. Spacecraft like Hera, ...

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth’s solar system.

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Jupiter would need 80 times its current mass to ignite as a star, with gravity that could fling Earth out of the solar system ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in ...