These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...
Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...
Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...
New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...
The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...
Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...