Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...
SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...
Mercury, which is closest to the sun ... alignment is simply an optical illusion: the planets are still separated by millions ...
Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...
The planet is outside our solar system and has a mass six times greater than that of Earth. The discovery is of an exoplanet, this is any planet beyond our solar system, most of them orbit other ...
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...