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 ...

Solar physicists have revealed how swirling plasma flows around sunspots 1, sculpted by the same Coriolis force that drives Earth's weather systems, shape the Sun’s rotation just beneath its surface.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini-moon” for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, ...

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite ...

Three interstellar objects; ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS—have passed through the Solar System. This article details their discoveries, trajectories, compositions, and current positions in ...