The great planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

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While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...