Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

The relative size of the inner planets of our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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 ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

Some peas-in-a-pod systems also have outer planets like our solar system. Deciding on a rule to designate inner and outer regions wasn't easy, but the team classified outer planets as those that ...

This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an asteroid belt, containing thousands of huge rocks, dwarf planets and comets. Our solar system ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

A team of researchers led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan claimed on Thursday to have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on ...

Astronomers have spotted four smaller-than-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system ... any planets more massive than 40 to 60 percent of Earth's mass near the inner and outer ...

Social planets Jupiter and Saturn oversee growth and discipline, and outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto impact innovation and transformation. Astrology, a timeless system of celestial ...