Earth is far from the only celestial body in the Solar System.

Space is stranger than you think. Our solar system — the only one we’ve ever called home — is packed with phenomena so bizarre, so extreme, and so counterintuitive that they sound like pure science ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...