Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite ...

Context. As a star evolves, the planet orbits change with time due to tidal interactions, stellar mass losses, friction and gravitational drag forces, mass accretion and evaporation on/by the planet.

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Visualizing our solar system is one of those third-eye treats that never grows old. The Sun and its gravitationally bound planets, asteroids, etc. are in constant relative motion, and thinking about ...

Data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission has enabled the creation of a detailed catalog of asteroid rotations ...

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin influences its shape, atmosphere, and extreme weather patterns, including the ...

The earth's rotation causes the Coriolis effect, which deflects massive air and water flows toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This phenomenon ...

Spring, summer, fall and winter—the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It's easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

Photographing the planets has long been a mainstay of both amateur and professional astronomers. It wasn’t so long ago that images from Voyager were wowing astronomers and scientists while amateurs ...