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

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life.

claim to have found that the planet outside our Solar System has an atmosphere with water vapour, methane, and carbon dioxide. Given the composition of these gases, they suggest that the planet is ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection introduces ... the lit-up side stays facing the Sun. Let's look at it on its journey.

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth ... body that was detected in the solar system that came from outside of the solar system.

So, if you look at how much they’ve changed, we know how much time has passed. And when we do that we work out that the Earth, the sun and everything in the solar system is 4.6 billion years old!

19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar ...

Researchers Darren Williams and Michael Zugger propose an alternative explanation, suggesting that the Moon was originally part of a binary system. Earth's gravity captured one of the objects ...