The Bobblys are a new kid-friendly pop group all the way from outer space. Their first EP teaches kids to find the magic in ...

Astronomers are tracking strange orbital patterns in the outer Solar System that suggest a massive unseen planet may exist ...

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If Earth were ejected from the Solar System — by a passing star or planetary collision — daylight would vanish in days. The planet would plunge into eternal night, its oceans freezing solid while ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

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New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

The object that smashed into Earth and kick-started the extinction that wiped out almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago was an asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...