A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR ... a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... there are currently thousands of human-made satellites in orbit around Earth that satisfy the definition above but are not considered ...