New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Planetary science has long enjoyed an important role in Nature history. Nature has published many important advances since the beginning of space exploration, from a seminal series of papers on Giotto ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and reassembled on the journey it took through space before landing in an ...

Planetary surfaces are often thin cracked shells, from mudcracks to ice sheets to Earth’s tectonic plates. We survey the solar system and find that there are three general types of fracture network ...

Get excited about Uranus (and so much more). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar system is overflowing with fascinating ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the ...

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding, which was slashed nearly in half in the White House's proposed 2026 ...