Only a few human beings have even made it to the moon, much less other planets or out beyond the solar system, but a part of us has; two parts, to be exact. The NASA Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes ...

Four small rocky planets detected in orbit around Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to our solar system, are seen in this illustration ... If it’s too far, it would freeze. It turns out, ...

The solar system is basically one giant highway, and if planets had driver’s licenses ... and slows down near cafés just to check out the aesthetics. Earth – The Self-Righteous Road Rager ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets ... That's really the major discovery to come out of this paper," Gilbert said.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system ... make the system unstable, ejecting other planets out of the ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but ...

TWO OF THE SEVEN PLANETS, THREE ARE EASILY FOUND AND WE ... IT’S EASY TO PICK OUT BECAUSE IT’S A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT COLOR. IT’S LIKE OFF WHITE OR YELLOW COMPARED TO THE OTHERS, BUT IT ...

Now every other world in our solar system will ... are the orbits of the planets around it. Our point of view from Earth, then, is along one of those grooves, “looking out along the platter ...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new moons are between 2 and 4 kilometres wide, but at what point is a rock too small to be a moon?