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Brown Dwarf Seen From Project Backyard Worlds Near Solar System
By Peter D'Souza | Jun 06, 2017 07:39 PM EDTGet to know how NASA's Backyard Worlds detected a brown dwarf.
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The Search For Ninth Planet In Our Solar System: How Amateur Astronomy Helps It Move Forward [VIDEO]
By Gerard Black | Mar 29, 2017 07:40 AM EDTAmateur astronomers are welcome to help in finding the ninth planet in our solar system.
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Planet Orbits Its Star Once Every 900,000 Years!
By Peter R | Jan 27, 2016 12:08 PM ESTThe planet 2MASS J2126 and its parent star TYC 9486-927-1 constitute the widest planetary system known.
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Is There A Ninth Planet Lurking Around The Sun?
By Peter R | Jan 21, 2016 04:21 PM ESTTwo astrophysicists from Caltech have argued that a ninth planet is indeed out there.
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Five Planets Aligned For The First Time In 10 Years
By R. Siva Kumar | Jan 19, 2016 04:23 PM ESTMars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter will be in alignment this winter and can be viewed from January 20 to February 20.
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Star Hosts Closest Alien Planet In 'Habitable Zone'
By R. Siva Kumar | Dec 17, 2015 10:21 PM ESTResearchers find that a potentially habitable planet is only 14 light years away.
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HD 106906b Planet Is Kicked Out Of Its Own Solar System
By R. Siva Kumar | Dec 03, 2015 02:23 PM ESTA giant planet has been ejected from its system, perhaps due to gravitational pressures.
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Holy Hot Jupiter! This Planet Has Winds Gusting At 5,400 MPH
By Peter R | Nov 16, 2015 09:04 AM ESTResearchers discovered that high wind speeds on the exoplanet HD 189733b are caused due to large day and night temperatures.
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Farthest Planet Of Solar System And Oldest Stars Of Milky Way Found
By Peter R | Nov 12, 2015 02:17 PM ESTResearchers found the stars at the center of the universe while the solar system's most distant object is said to three times father than the Pluto-Sun distance.
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Jupiter Kicked Out Mysterious Planet From Solar System Billions Of Years Ago
By R. Siva Kumar | Nov 04, 2015 09:20 AM ESTJupiter is perhaps responsible for ejection of extra planet formed during earth's formation.
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Moon Callisto Reveals Mighty Jupiter Set A Gas Giant Free From Early Solar System - For Good!
By Peter R | Oct 31, 2015 01:17 PM EDTBy analyzing the orbit of Callisto, researchers discerned that Jupiter caused another gas giant to break free from Sun's gravity.
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Rosetta's Recent 'Comet Oxygen' Discovery Trumps Previous Finds
By Peter R | Oct 29, 2015 03:41 PM EDTOxygen is said to have become part of the planet before its formation.
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Study Shows Signs of Underground Ocean On a Saturn Moon
By Kamal Nayan | Apr 04, 2014 12:06 PM EDTEnceladus - a small moon orbiting the giant ringed planet Saturn - can be added to the growing list of places other than Earth that have oceans, according to a new study.
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Water Detected On a Planet Outside The Solar System
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 27, 2014 09:27 AM ESTWater has been detected on a Jupiter-sized planet outside our solar system. An international team of astronomers detected water in the atmosphere of the planet named Tau Bootis B that is nearly identical to planet Jupiter.
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1 in 4 Americans Unaware Of The Fact That Earth Revolves Around the Sun
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 17, 2014 09:05 AM ESTOne in four Americans does not know that Earth revolves around the sun, according to a recent survey by National Science Foundation.
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