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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...

Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and dust around 14 million years ago, dimming Earth’s view of the night ...

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Stargazing apps can also help you locate the planets. All of our solar system’s planets won’t parade again until around March 31 or April 1, 2036.

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...

3. Solar system poetry: Use visual imagery and knowledge from the video; what key words come to pupils’ minds when they think about the solar system? Develop and capture word clouds and begin to ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have captured an Oort Cloud planet. Kaib emphasized that ...