According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert Wich Titusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — Where do meteorites of different type come from ... its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet ...

one which can offer superb views of the other bodies in the solar system. But which one to choose? We've got you covered with our guide to the best telescopes for seeing planets. There are several ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured a series of remote planets in the HR 8799 star system that are 130 light years away in the Milky Way, and they are very strikin ...

As experts turn their gaze to the sky, the likelihood of new discoveries increases exponentially. In a new paper published in the journal Earth, a group of scientists may have come ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...

The observations provide strong evidence that the system's four giant planets formed ... to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours.