A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
A powerful new tool comes online this year that could help astronomers locate the mysterious planet hiding somewhere beyond ...
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When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...
In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
Referred to as a planetary parade or alignment, this celestial event occurs when multiple planets in our solar system appear ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...
The eight major planets of our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same flat plane, and all at different speeds. Mercury, the closest planet to the ... of Chandra, its X-ray Observatory.
Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...