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Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Decades-old pictures of Pluto’s heart are breaking the Internet again. University of Oxford's Dr Carly Howett explains the science behind the New Horizons mission and that famous 5-billion-kilometre ...

The map shows diverse geological features shaping Antarctic glaciers from below, which can improve climate models of ice melt ...

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the solar system, towering nearly three times higher than Mount Everest.

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

The sun's outer atmosphere has recently been likened to a pufferfish, revealing fascinating new insights into our solar system. This unique comparison stems from the first verified maps of the Alfvén ...