The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...

(NEXSTAR) – If you live at the edge of the path of totality, you may not want to trust your map of the 2024 total solar eclipse ... of both the moon and the Earth, precise eclipse prediction ...

All planets gravitationally interact with their star, as both star and planet orbit a common center ... planet on our solar system. His experiment dropped a fully formed super-Earth into the ...

Understanding how the habitability of our solar system's inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—would change had there been a super-Earth opposite Mars can help guide astrobiologists ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps ... solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in Space allows you to zoom over the surface of the Earth ...

Scientists have built the most detailed map volcanoes on ... any other planet in the solar system, it doesn't have tectonic plates, which drive volcanic activity on Earth. A discovery of a ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.