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The Moon may be 40 million years older than previously thought
Oct 23, 2023A new analysis of samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission has raised new questions about the age of the Moon.
Alternative theory of gravity could explain evidence of Planet Nine
Oct 16, 2023Orbital inconsistancies indicative of a mysterious hidden planet in our solar system may have an alternative explanation.
Is there an alien planet hiding at the edge of our solar system ?
Jun 30, 2023Astronomers believe that there is a small chance that a rogue planet could have been 'captured' by the Sun's gravity.
NASA is working on a radical new type of propulsion system
Apr 10, 2023Pellet-beam propulsion has the potential to enable a spacecraft to cross the entire solar system within 5 years.
Efforts to obtain data on interstellar visitor plagued with difficulties
Mar 18, 2023A meteor from another solar system landed on Earth back in 2014, but obtaining more information about it has proven challenging.
Distant dwarf planet has its own unique ring system
Feb 10, 2023It turns out that Saturn and the other gas giants are not the only planetary bodies in our solar system to have rings.
Discovery of 12 new moons around Jupiter breaks Saturn's record
Feb 9, 2023Jupiter's status as the planet with the most moons in our solar system has now officially been restored.
On Pluto, you can throw a ball higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza
VIDEO Dec 29, 2022A fascinating new video has emerged showing how far it is possible to throw a ball on the other worlds in our solar system.
Searing hot diamond-cored extrasolar world is a veritable 'hell planet'
Dec 12, 2022Situated 40 light-years away, this hellish terrestrial world is like nothing found in our own solar system.
Avi Loeb claims that there may be a second interstellar object on Earth
Sep 24, 2022Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and colleague Amir Siraj believe that they have identified another interstellar visitor.
Total number of discovered exoplanets now exceeds 5,000
Mar 28, 2022Over the last 30 years, scientists have succeeded in identifying a staggering 5,000 planets in distant solar systems.
Is the fabled Planet Nine still out there ?
Mar 22, 2022The potential existence of an undiscovered planet in our own solar system has intrigued astronomers for years.
Could we detect alien probes that are inside our own solar system ?
Nov 28, 2021Scientists have been aiming to bring the hunt for intelligent alien life a little closer to home.
Liquid water discovered inside a meteorite
May 16, 2021For the first time, scientists have found liquid water inside a meteorite from the earliest days of the solar system.
Could we find alien probes in our solar system ?
Apr 21, 2021A NASA report published in 2018 takes the idea of finding alien 'technosignatures' very seriously indeed.
Man 'from Saturn' is suing the US government
Dec 23, 2020The man, who filed the lawsuit earlier this month, claims that he is from the 'sixth planet of our solar system'.
Did a 9th planet 'escape' billions of years ago ?
Nov 29, 2020Scientists have found evidence to suggest that another world once existed between Uranus and Saturn.
Could mankind destroy the entire solar system?
Aug 18, 2020We've been doing a good job of messing up our own planet, but what about the rest of the solar system ?
Are we living in a giant deflated croissant ?
Aug 9, 2020Scientists have determined the most likely shape of the heliosphere which surrounds the solar system.
Some stars could host seven habitable planets
Aug 2, 2020Other stars may be able to host more than our own solar system's solitary habitable world, a new study suggests.
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