A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

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

New research suggests that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was once even bigger—about twice its current size—and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger than it does today. This ...

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

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

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

(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 ...

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 ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...