Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

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Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids, and comets. Most meteorites ...

solar users can expect to fork out up to R30 000 to register their solar system, reported MyBroadband on 18 March 2025. Previous reports have revealed that the requirements that need to be met ...

Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres that ...