Solar system

Is there extraterrestrial life in some corner of our solar system? If there is, it is very likely that it is on one of these planets or moons.

A new study confirms that the planet's clouds do not contain enough water to support alien life. But maybe another planet in our system does ...

A team of scientists has found evidence that parts of the Venusian surface move in something like plate tectonics.

The edge of our solar system is littered with objects from the ancient past, but one of them is heading our way. His name, 2014 UN271.

Traced the limits of the heliosphere, the bubble created by the solar wind that protects the Earth, our planet, from harmful radiation.

The gas giant orbiter will approach a little more than 1,000 kilometers to the massive moon, in what will be the first approach in 20 years and the largest that has ever been made to the largest natural satellite in the solar system.

The Oort cloud is a spherical cloud of trans-Neptunian objects located at the edge of our solar system. How did it come about?

Some are named after lovers or daughters of the Roman god Jupiter or his Greek equivalent, Zeus.