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Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Scientists found a mysterious rogue planet roaming aimlessly outside our solar system. What if it came closer?

To reach Uranus is to journey into the absolute unknown. Situated in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, nearly 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, this Ice Giant is a world of paradoxes. It is ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Discover the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise. Learn why this 'rebel' planet spins backwards, how a ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...