From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the ...

Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, due to heat resulting from tidal forces ... Neptune’s largest moon Triton is partly covered with nitrogen ice and snow, and has currently ...

Overseas power projects, completed under China’s Belt & Road initiative, reached a record 24 GW in 2024 – doubling capacity ...

Natural gas-fired power generation has risen in Pennsylvania to over 57% of the energy mix, more than twice the 26% share in ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...