You might think of our solar system as fixed and unchanging. But that doesn't take into account the constant discoveries scientists are making in our cosmic neighborhood. WUWM astronomy contributor ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system. Around our solar system, violent eruptions are shaping distant worlds. Discover the explosive forces that ...

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

In a groundbreaking study,Harvard physicist Dr. Avi Loeb has brought new attention to an unusual interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Oceans enchant me. They have a magical quality: the soothing rhythm of waves crashing, the vulnerable feeling of smallness that comes from peering into the deep blue depths. Oceans seem to hold ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...