New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...
Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
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Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nearby exploding star
A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 per cent of sun-like stars ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. When ...
This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...
When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Based on new simulations, ...
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 ...
Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...
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