Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery ...

Mercury is a metal ball with ... eight major planets, the Sweden Solar System also includes models of some moons, asteroids, and comets, such as the asteroid Vesta (3 cm in diameter) at a school in ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

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April’s planetary parade has fewer planets. Only four will line up: Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune. April's parade of ...

The planet’s elusive aurorae are much colder than expected, which is how they evaded detection for so long.

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.