Planets of this size are largely unexplored beyond our solar system, making it a significant step forward as astronomers ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Starting closest to the sun, our home star's nearest neighbors ... The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

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