Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...
Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...
their gravitational kicks sent leftover material hurtling to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Today, these icy ...
planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth. Our planet is just the right distance from the ...
NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...