Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

You don’t want to miss the 20th Anniversary of 1984 Arcade! When 1984 Arcade opened our doors in July 2005. YouTube was 5 months old.  iPhones were not even a thing yet (2007 launch).  There ...

When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...

On October 9, 2008, the State Space Agency of Ukraine sent a message towards Gliese 581c. Unlike the Voyager records, whose messages were chosen by a committee chaired by renowned physicist Carl Sagan ...

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The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

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Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

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Computer simulations show that planets could be flung out of the inner solar system, supporting the possible existence of a ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary migrations that shaped the worlds we know today. While it may seem intuitive that ...

On Jan. 5, 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet.