Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

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Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

Nesvorny told Newsweek: "For me, the most interesting thing about this is that the Oort spiral is the boundary between the Solar System and the Galaxy. "It is where the solar gravity competes with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.