The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

Do all exoplanets known as “hot” Jupiters orbit alone in their respective solar systems, as has long been observed? This is what a recent study | Space ...

So many comets have failed to live up to predictions that many people have become cynical about them, so why does this happen ...

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Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

All must, then, be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed ... Mars and the particles at the inner edge of Saturn's ring revolve ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

Understanding how the habitability of our solar system's inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—would change had there been a super-Earth opposite Mars can help guide astrobiologists ...