Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...

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For years, scientists have observed the Solar System’s outer reaches in search of a Planet Nine. While Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006, some researchers believe an even larger ...

What if I told you our solar system had another mysterious planet? It’s not a terribly new concept, but as our telescopic technology gets better we’re finding more evidence that another planet might ...

In the next decade, researchers will start probing the atmosphere of planets as small as Earth and Venus orbiting nearby stars. But although these two solar system planets are similar in size and ...

At just over 4 light-years away, Proxima Centauri is home to an exoplanet that tantalizes astronomers with its potential. Could this be our next destination?

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

People around the world will have a chance this weekend to catch what could be the year’s most stunning view of the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter on Saturday will shine at its ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system, it will arguably be done via spectroscopy of an earth-like planet's atmosphere as it passes in front of its parent star.

in a 4.5 billion-year-old Solar System, they formed very recently. In addition, the ring material is gradually falling into the planet, so the rings won't be there forever. As Saturn and the Earth ...

The largest celestial bodies in our solar system that still exist—massive asteroids and minor planets—are thought to be the last vestiges of this era of planetary formation. This is the period ...