All the extra solar particles expelled by coronal holes get soaked up by Earth's upper atmosphere during the battle zone, on top of the particles from the frequently occurring solar storms ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

Understanding how the habitability of our solar system's inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—would change had there been a super-Earth opposite Mars can help guide astrobiologists ...

Nathan Kaib, co-author of the study and astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute, stated it is plausible for the Solar System to have ... circular orbit of Earth. Detecting these planets ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century ...

With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of ...

The scenario also could support Pluto's active geology and possible subsurface ocean, despite its location at the frozen edge of the solar system. "We think the Earth-Moon system initiated when a ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has caught the first-ever direct image of two planets outside the solar system orbiting an Earth-like star. The trio captured on camera ...