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'Super-Earth' discovered 31 light years away
VIDEO 8-2-2019 |
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Astronomers have announced the discovery of a large, potentially habitable world in a nearby solar system.
'Alien' grain offers clues to early solar system
4-29-2019 | 0
Scientists have discovered a grain of dust left over from a stellar explosion that predated our solar system.
Forget FarOut: FarFarOut has been discovered
2-26-2019 | 13
The discoverer of the most distant known object in our solar system has now found an even more distant one.
New moon discovered in our solar system
VIDEO 2-21-2019 | 2
Scientists have successfully identified an entirely new moon in orbit around the gas giant Neptune.
Distant solar system object 'Farout' discovered
12-18-2018 | 8
Astronomers have identified the farthest known object in our solar system at a distance of 11 billion miles.
Bizarre solar system is baffling astronomers
10-16-2018 | 6
Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
New dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovered
10-2-2018 | 8
The important new find also hints at the presence of another, much larger planet in the outer solar system.
Meteorite found in Africa is older than the Earth
8-7-2018 | 14
Scientists have been studying a meteorite that dates back to a time before the birth of our solar system.
Rogue planet detected outside our solar system
8-4-2018 | 12
The huge object is 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter and has a magnetic field 200 times more powerful.
'Super-Earth' most likely candidate for life
8-2-2018 | 60
A large Earth-like world has emerged as the most likely place to look for life outside of our solar system.
Twelve new moons discovered around Jupiter
7-17-2018 | 10
The discovery means that the gas giant has a total of 79 moons - more than any other planet in the solar system.
More distant Earth-sized worlds discovered
6-9-2018 | 8
Astronomers have found a solar system 160 light years away with three planets roughly the size of our own.
Probe to study solar system's protective bubble
6-4-2018 | 0
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Interstellar interloper found near Jupiter
5-21-2018 | 8
An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
Further evidence of Planet Nine discovered
5-18-2018 | 14
A small solar system object with a strange orbit has hinted at the presence of a large, unknown world.
Mysterious 'exiled' asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
5-11-2018 | 0
An asteroid from the earliest days of the solar system has been found four billion kilometers from Earth.
Meteorite filled with diamonds found in Sudan
4-17-2018 | 4
A meteorite that crashed in the Nubian Desert has offered a glimpse of our solar system's earliest days.
'Ingredients for life' found in meteorites
1-15-2018 | 10
Scientists have found new evidence to suggest that life could have arisen elsewhere in the solar system.
Alien chemistry of the Hypatia stone revealed
1-10-2018 | 6
The mysterious space rock contains micro-mineral compounds found nowhere else in the solar system.
Visiting asteroid has 'strange organic coat'
12-18-2017 | 15
Oumuamua, the first ever confirmed visitor to our solar system, has a thick layer of organic insulation.
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