Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

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

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

The Kuiper Belt object Altjira was thought to be a binary, but closer analysis suggests that it is highly likely to be a triple system This raises the question of the three-body problem; if ...

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 ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

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.

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 central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

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 ...