The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

The book covers a wide range of issues, from the state-of-the-art observational techniques used to detect extrasolar planets, to the characterizations ... It also looks at the insights we can gain ...

Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many moons Shi En Kim BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its fourth close pass of the ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

Researchers have used computer simulations to calculate a new model of the distribution of water on exoplanets – planets orbiting another star outside our solar system. Their findings reveal that most ...

As Wolszczan told me in my 2001 book “Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond the Solar System,” the pulsar PSR B1257 +12 didn't time right. "There was this extra variability that was ...

An incredible variety of planets, including Earth ... and ground-based observations are rewriting the book on this leftover debris from our solar system’s formation, some 4.56 billion years ...

Our Solar System is very stable. Planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets go forth in their orbit without trouble. But it won't be like this forever. The future of the Solar System will have ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have captured an Oort Cloud planet. Kaib emphasized that ...