India to witness ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse on June 21

The next solar eclipse, which will be a partial solar eclipse, will take place on October 25, 2022

Water, water, everywhere in our Solar system but what does that mean for life?

It should be no surprise that water played a key role in the formation and evolution of our planetary system

From the world to worlds

Orbits of TRAPPIST-1’s seven plant system are compact, yet they are not roasted wastelands like Mercury

How looking into space can help our understanding of climate change on Earth

Atmospheric changes on exoplanets could hold clues to our own environmental problems

Juno's closest flyby past Jupiter on Saturday

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission which will end in February 2018

NASA's Juno arrives at Jupiter to lift cloudy veil

The Juno mission could help reveal how Jupiter formed, whether it has a rocky core and whether it influenced life on earth

10 things to know about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter

With the Juno spacecraft successfully in place in the orbit of the largest planet of our solar system, we bring you quick facts about the …

Mercury transit helps scientists study the planet

Scientists attempted to understand the processes of sodium atoms being released into Mercury’s atmosphere

Water, water, everywhere—where to drink in the solar system

Ice is everywhere in the solar system and there may even be liquid water beneath the surface of a number of planets. But could we ever get to it?

The fortnight in brief

Himachal villages are first to claim forests rights, J&K's Russian poplars to be felled, Delhi's increasing appetite for power …

Many-faced workers

A British inventor has come up with a concept which could lead to robots that can build cars, bridge rivers and even explore Mars

Bright side of the 'moon'

Catch a falling planet

...A recent discovery is the first confirmation of the long-held belief that planets such as Earth may exist in other parts of the universe

Universal law

A mathematical relationship between planets in our solar system holds astoundingly true even for 3 distant planets orbiting a pulsar

Cometary conundrum

Fresh data on the collision of shards of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter last year has divided scientists on the size of the comet fragments

Shooting Mars

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New neighbour

A recently found object that is roughly half the size of Pluto might be the smallest planet

Even Bigger Family

Planet X

Keeping Mars clean

Pummelled into life

Cosmic fireworks

Our kind of place?

we on earth have always had a special fascination for the other planets of the solar system. But there is more to the planets than meets the …

Earth's spinning innards

A recent finding about the earth's core could hold a clue to the forces that shape the planet