An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

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The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

So far, scientists have confirmed the existence of just over 5,800 planets outside our solar system — and the data we have on ... which comprehensively simulates the development of hypothetical ...

So far, scientists have confirmed the existence of just over 5,800 planets outside our solar system — and the ... simulates the development of hypothetical planets as far back to their inception ...

Using software programs he helped to build, he follows all the known asteroids and comets zipping about close to the planet ... the solar system, then perhaps they delivered water to the inner ...

Simpson and Chen simulated several different versions of a hypothetical super-Earth ... the worst-case scenario for life in the inner solar system involves a planet between 10 and 20 times more ...

These planets, known as sub-Neptunes, are much bigger than the rocky planets in our inner solar system, but smaller than Neptune and other gas-dominated planets of the outer solar system.

Some think clues could be embedded in a meteorite thought to be similar to our newborn planet, called an enstatite chondrite. These types of meteorites were formed in the inner solar system and ...