Pluto is one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, which we can’t even call a planet anymore. Thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models, scientists have created impressive movies, in which we fly ...

Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, ...

The north polar region of Saturn, in shadow for the first part of the Cassini mission, now enjoys full sunlight, which enables Cassini scientists to directly image it in reflected light, according to NASA. Although the sunlight falling on the ...

Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching the pole, the organized turbulence of Jupiter’s belts and zones transitions into clusters of unorganized filamentary structures, streams of air that resemble giant tangled strings. According to NASA, the image was taken on Dec. ...

The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, suggest a possible common origin and give a clue to the existence of a planet beyond Pluto, the so-called ‘Planet Nine,’ Joinfo.com reports ...

Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech University, originally concluded that Planet Nine most likely exists after studying the behaviors of six objects in the Kuiper Belt — the large cloud of icy bodies that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune, The Verge ...

Scientists are excited about a major breakthrough that have been made for the first time, Joinfo.com informs with the reference to The Daily Mail. The astronomers from Australia and the US got a proof of a long-held theory about the planets outside ...