Solar System
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Astronomers announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside Solar System
Oct 4, 2018Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System. This “exomoon” is not like any in our cosmic neighborhood: it’s the size of Neptune and orbits a planet the size... -
Scientists made the first radio-telescope detection of a huge free-floating planet beyond solar system
Aug 7, 2018Scientists have made the first radio-telescope detection of a huge free-floating planet beyond our solar system, a new study said. The planetary-mass object, called SIMP J01365663+0933473, is about a dozen times more massive than Jupiter, the... -
The sun to be unusually 7% cooler by 2050!
Feb 12, 2018The sun might be unusually cool by 2050, according to a new study. On the basis of 20 years of observations and collected data, scientists have calculated that the sun will be nearly seven percent cooler... -
Solar system with as many planets as our own discovered with the help of NASA’s Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence
Dec 16, 2017None of the planets are expected to be hospitable to life. The eight-planet system — the largest known outside of ours — orbits a star called Kepler 90 some 2,545 light-years away. A solar system with... -
NASA announced two unmanned missions to asteroids to study one of the earliest eras in the history of the solar system
Jan 5, 2017News Hour: The US space agency NASA on Wednesday announced two unmanned missions to asteroids designed to study one of the earliest eras in the history of the solar system. They have been dubbed Lucy and...