Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Venus does have one known quasi-moon, Zoozve, but this does not count because it actually orbits ... number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system.

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, flew into view of the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Graphic illustration by William D. González Sierra for the Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida. TNOs, planetary bodies located beyond Neptune, are icy remnants of the early Solar ...