Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system. None of the terrestrial planets have rings ... Earth’s Moon orbits the planet once every 27.3 days at an average distance of ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped ... to the Sun must have been less than 20 AU (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun). If there really was such ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

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