It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

An exoplanet in the Trappist star system — a multi-planet star system similar to the solar system and just 39 light-years ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Do we have a planetary bias when it comes to understanding where life can perpetuate? It's only natural that we do.

Source: IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH Secondly, the Earth's atmosphere absorbs and scatters visible or short-wave blue ...

In stark contrast with a paper released last year that determined the exoplanet was likely to be bare and barren, new data ...

Now that we’ve found more dark comets, we’ve noticed that they come in two flavors. Outer dark comets are larger – about a mile wide in size – and on more elliptical orbits farther out in the solar ...

Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...

we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets.” Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and ...