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›
Scientists have seen black holes killing and swallowing stars... 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›
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›
Asteroids like Oumuamua enter our solar system about once a year, these scientists said... 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›
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›
NASA seeks nickname for tiny, icy world on solar system's edge... READ MORE›
It crossed under that plane just outside Mercury's orbit on Sept. 2 before being slung by the sun's gravity into a sharp turn under our solar system... READ MORE›
Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our solar system, debunking the theory that these only develop around giant planets... READ MORE›
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... 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›
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›
The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4,A could come as close as 4,200 miles to Earth, NASA said... READ MORE›
Unlike us, tardigrades -- the world's most indestructible species -- will survive until the sun dies, according to a new Oxford University study released Friday... 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›
NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small, it said... 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›
The fourth asteroid this year buzzed the Earth about midday Thursday, passing between the Earth and moon... 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›
The Earth could be plunged into a 'mini ice age' in just 15 years from now according to new research which looks at the Sun's activity cycle... READ MORE›
There are billions of comets in our Solar System, which are typically located in one of two regions... READ MORE›
It may be one of the darkest dwarf planets in our solar system, Barentsen said... READ MORE›
The global investment bank Goldman Sachs has claimed mining asteroids for precious metals is a realistic goal... 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›
Surprised scientists breathe a sigh of relief just as NASA prepares to launch its probe to Bennu, a space rock that regularly comes close to earth... READ MORE›
Based on the location and type of organics found on Ceres, scientists ruled out the possibility they were deposited by a crashing asteroid or comet... READ MORE›
PASADENA, CALIF.--Soaring over Jupiter's poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system's largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops... READ MORE›
The European Space Agency's senior scientific advisor Prof Mark McCaughrean says Philae will help scientists learn more about comets... READ MORE›
If the flight of NEA Scout proves successful, Johnson believes solar sails have tremendous potential for future exploration of the Solar System... READ MORE›
Scientists hope that samples drilled from the roughly 3-by-5 km comet by Philae will unlock details about how the planets... READ MORE›
Monday's close approach comes on the heels of the Mars opposition on May 22, when the planet and sun were on directly opposite sides of the Earth... READ MORE›
PARIS - Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space alien microscopic life... READ MORE›
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