In December -- while 3.79 billion miles 6.12 billion kilometers from Earth -- the New Horizons spacecraft snapped a picture of a star cluster... READ MORE›
NEOCam will furthermore help us study the origin of the solar system and enable asteroid exploration and exploitation... READ MORE›
DART is a NASA mission now in the preliminary design phase that will redirect a small asteroid moon around Didymos by simply hitting it... READ MORE›
The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands... READ MORE›
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... READ MORE›
Those with a telescope could see Uranus all month.A Find Uranus,A theA seventh planet from the sun, by looking into the southeast sky... READ MORE›
Its gravity would've messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would've stripped the moon away completely, he said... READ MORE›
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
Various people are 'predicting' that world will end on September 23 when another planet collides with Earth, say Nasa... READ MORE›
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies images from the New Horizons probe reveal... READ MORE›
New horizons probe eyes pluto for historic encounter... READ MORE›
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October, Breakthrough Listen reports... READ MORE›
If 16 Psyche did start out as a protoplanet, as Professor Elkins-Tanton expects, it would have had a run of very bad luck... READ MORE›
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE›
Image courtesy of NASA JPL-Caltech and Space Science Institute Another world with an ocean is one of Jupiter's moons, Europa... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
Rocky asteroids vary in size and are mainly found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter... READ MORE›
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto... READ MORE›
According to popular imagination, Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet on the edge of the solar system that orbits the sun every 3,600 years... READ MORE›
The fourth asteroid this year buzzed the Earth about midday Thursday, passing between the Earth and moon... READ MORE›
AP -- For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single nearby star -- and these new worlds could hold life... READ MORE›
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
There are billions of comets in our Solar System, which are typically located in one of two regions... READ MORE›
NASA's Hubble space telescope has revealed a tiny moon orbiting Pluto's dwarf planet neighbor Makemake... READ MORE›
It may be one of the darkest dwarf planets in our solar system, Barentsen said... READ MORE›
Asteroids like Bennu and planets like Earth all formed as our solar system coalesced 4.5 billion year ago... READ MORE›
One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA says... READ MORE›
While the speed of light might seem fast from the surface of the Earth, in the black never-ending vastness of space, it's actually quite slow... READ MORE›
Such temperature would have made Venus, surprisingly for a planet closer to the Sun, a bit chillier than Earth was at the time... READ MORE›
Instead, they have inferred its existence from the motion of recently discovered dwarf planets and other small objects in the outer solar system... READ MORE›
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