On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, plus Earth under your feet—all eight known planets of our solar system!
On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...