A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...
Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
First discovered in 2009, GJ 1214 b is described by the JWT team as being “sub-Neptune-sized” - smaller than the outermost ...
The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun.
to form a visually spectacular alignment is known as a ‘planet parade’. Because of their orbits and our perspective from Earth, the planets appear to be grouped together even if they may not ...
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...