Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the ...

How our own Solar System came to be ... in direction between those forces is enough to create an axis of rotation: an eddy, transient on cosmological time scales, with a vortex at its center.

Like the majority of the solar system's planets, this rotation is counter-clockwise, but as well as being significantly slower than Earth's rotation, the sun's rotation is much more complex.

Direct rotation and revolution of satellites on ... be developed that would bear a strong resemblance to the existing solar system. The resisting medium itself would gradually degenerate and ...

(bursting) "Solar System: Wandering Worlds," right now on ... orbiting and spinning in the direction of the planet's rotation. But while the inner moons orbit Neptune in the same direction ...

NARRATOR: "Solar System: Strange Worlds ... NARRATOR: In this case, the sun, and that helps to visualize the rotation of the planet. DOTTIN: Wow. I mean, how cool is that? Now that's no camera ...