Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers have found a compact new cluster of objects inside the Kuiper belt, which is a distant band of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system beyond Neptune. The cluster sits 4.0 billion miles ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered at Uranus, left, and Neptune to study the so-called "ice giant" planets, but little is known about their interior composition. Credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter / ...

When most people think of astrology, they typically think of their zodiac sign, also known as their Sun sign—the one that appears when you Google your birthday. However, astrology encompasses much ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

Take an epic journey across the solar system to Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Each world tells a different story — from Venus’s fiery surface to Mars’s red deserts and Jupiter’s massive storms. This ...

Astronomers have identified a star system, named HD 110067, where six planets keep steady orbital ratios with one another. This pattern is a resonance, which means each world completes a set number of ...