Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The solar system suddenly has a new member. A new object ...
Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...
A rare planetary system has been discovered that mirrors the structure of our solar system, exoplanet formation, and gas ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...
For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing into the mysterious boundary where our solar system ends and interstellar ...