The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...
The new exoplanet, Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b has never been seen before and is now officially being called a "Super-Venus." ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
Skywatchers: A six-planet alignment peaks this week as Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn come together for ...
The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the Solar System.