An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

their gravitational kicks sent leftover material hurtling to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Today, these icy ...

planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth. Our planet is just the right distance from the ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system ... At a heliocentric distance ranging from 10,000 to 100,000 astronomical ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded ... it'll reach its closest point at a distance of a little over three light years away, raising the ...

The distances between these planetary models are scaled down from the actual distances in our Solar System. For example, the Earth model is located 8 kilometers from the model of the Sun, while Mars ...