Findings of a study published recently in The Astrophysical Journal are indicating that Jupiter ejected a giant planet from the solar system around 4 billion...
Tag - solar system
Scientists have spotted a gigantic hole in the topmost layer of the Sun in pictures captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The hole, which is referred...
A faraway star has been getting significant attention from astronomers, mostly because they believe that they have spotted signs of alien life there. The star...
Our solar system’s scale is something truly mind-boggling. Our home planet Earth alone is located over 92 million miles away from the sun. That’s not all; even...
An international team of scientists has found the first ever aurora outside our solar system. It’s a light display encircling a brown dwarf located around 18...
The sun has always played a pivotal role in the solar system. However, new information now reveals that the sun had an entirely different role in its youth...
The Kepler spacecraft of NASA, to date, has spotted more than thousand planets outside our solar system. One thing astronomers have found when examining those...
On Tuesday night, people in the United Kingdom saw a powerful solar storm creating an amazing light show. The spectacular event, which is referred to as Aurora...
Earlier, only four entities in our solar system were known to possess rings; all of them are planets. Saturn is obviously the most prominent name in the list;...
New research shows that the first stars that appeared in the solar system appeared nearly 150 million years later than what scientists and researchers had...
