Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing Planet Nine, a hypothetical, undiscovered planet in our solar system. New research now suggests the ...

A new NASA spacecraft has started tracking the particle streams that can make a massive solar flare dangerous while mapping ...

Somewhere beyond Neptune, the Kuiper Belt is bent. Not by much, and not in a way any known planet can account for. A study ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

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 ...