Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Our solar system, a cosmic ballet of planets ... Simpson and Chen modeled various sizes of Earth-like planets in the asteroid belt’s location. They tested scenarios with planetary masses ranging ...

defined as a planet located beyond our solar system. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know about and given its peculiar orbit,” exclaimed Cretignier, who first detected the planet ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...