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." ...
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 ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
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 ...
A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...
A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...