A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system. Since their launch in 1977, the twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

These insights, part of NASA’s Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) p... On December 7, Earth will align between the Sun and Jupiter, creating a rare astronomical event known as Jupiters ...

Credit: Astrobiology Center The K2-360 system features a record-dense “super-Earth” and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ... Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline ...

When is The Outer Worlds 2 release date? It’s been a while since Obsidian Entertainment’s first space venture, but it had much of the same DNA as the Fallout series. This isn’t necessarily ...

The lander, which launched in May 2018, was the first outer space robotic explorer to study the inner space of Mars in depth.

It's highly elliptical, which means as the planet orbits its star, it moves from the inner edge to just beyond the outer edge of the habitable zone every year. This raises questions about its ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.