Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet detected using the radial velocity method.

Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...

Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.

Scientists think the Oort Cloud is a giant spherical shell surrounding the Sun, planets and Kuiper Belt Objects. It’s like a big, thick bubble around our solar system, made of icy, comet-like objects.

When it was discovered in 1930, Pluto was considered the ninth planet in our solar system, a status it held until 2006 when it was reclassified as a dwarf planet. A lot of people who grew up ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system.

The gas giant planets of our solar system have many moons, which are defined as objects that orbit around planets or other bodies that are not stars. Jupiter has 95 known moons, Uranus 28 ...

The most surprising discovery of this new map was the appearance of an interstellar tunnel from our solar system pointing towards the constellation Centaurus. Hot gas escapes via this ...

our solar system came from that direction!” During that galactic encounter, Earth would have been exposed to extra amounts of dust. The scientists propose that such material may have penetrated the ...

If America’s humanitarian aid system were a business, it would have collapsed long ago. No enterprise — public or private — can sustain itself without demonstrating value, yet for decades ...

As per the researchers, even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice VII in the past. The findings could further help ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet ... of the solar system may ...