Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

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Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

With an orbit of 647 days, HD 20794 d is similar to Mars in our solar system. However, its orbit around the star is highly ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...