NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled on the largest patch of polygon-shaped ground fractures it has ever seen on Mars, a discovery that could reveal more about the planet’s watery past.
Planetary researchers have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still be seeping up from beneath the dwarf planet’s giant glacier, Sputnik Planitia, marking the first suggested case of recently flowing liquid on Pluto’s surface.
Now, a new study argues the surface of Venus may still bear the geological scars of those long-lost seas.
A new research suggests reaching Europa's subsurface ocean — or even glimpsing evidence of it near the icy surface — may be far harder than expected.
In 2010, scientists waiting to use the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands captured a brief 36 minutes of images of Venus. What they discovered, hidden in the data, was a series of planetwide concentric rings in the upper atmosphere.
A new study indicates that the formation of Earth’s crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust production roughly every 200 million years, corresponding to the solar system’s transit through the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 42.195 kilometers across the Red Planet.
Recently, a team of scientists identified an absorption line coming from Saturn's moons Titan and Pluto that has not yet been seen anywhere else.
Our Solar System may once have hosted not two, but three ice giants. This long-lost world could help explain why the outer planets and their moons look the way they do today.
The Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774, an angrite meteorite, appears to be a fragment of a vanished protoplanet, offering the strongest evidence yet that a large planetary body formed and was later destroyed during the Solar System’s chaotic infancy.
Shalbatana Vallis is an impressive channel near Mars’s equator. It is 1300 km in length - around the length of Italy. Formed formed around 3.5 billion years ago, when huge quantities of groundwater rose up to Mars’s surface.
Observations suggest that Nereid is no party crasher like Triton and likely survived by escaping into its extreme, elliptical orbit around Neptune.
Our solar system has been moving through the local interstellar cloud, left by a supernova, for over past 80,000 years.
Astronomers have spotted a tiny world with an atmosphere beyond the orbit of Neptune. It should be too small for an atmosphere to be possible.
A team of astronomers have discovered a giant volcanic cave hiding beneath the surface of Venus.
