New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that could affect our planet's climate. According to the study, the Solar System may ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Earlier studies have suggested that when the solar system was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, “dry” materials were separated from the “wet” materials with the dry objects, such as ...

“We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars ... s believed to be the first solid materials to form in our solar system more than ...

Earth's fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system Date: August 28, 2019 Source: McGill University Summary: Astronomers have assembled a 'fingerprint' for Earth, which ...