solar system

Issued on: 12/04/2023 - 06:08Modified: 12/04/2023 - 06:06 Could vast, long-hidden oceans be teeming with alien life in our very own Solar System?…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1,200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on September 26, 2022, according to…

There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our solar system, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common. Some of these close encounters end up…

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient…

In a rare cosmic display, all planets in our solar system will illuminate at once tonight. The two furthest planets from Earth, Uranus and Neptune, may be seen with binoculars or a telescope, whereas Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and…

<!-- -->NASA's Lucy probe was launched in October 2021.NASA's Lucy probe, a mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter, flew past Earth on October 16 and took some stunning photos of our planet and the moon before retreating to deep…

<!-- -->There are still unexplained mysteries surrounding TOI-3757 b.Scientists are finding all sorts of weird worlds. They've now discovered a gas giant planet with the density of a marshmallow orbiting a cool red dwarf star located…

Astrobiologists believe the presence of laughing gas in a distant planet's atmosphere could indicate life there. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas emitted by plants, making it a biosignature, or a compound in the atmosphere generated by a…

Jupiter is set to make its closest approach to Earth in the last 70 years and on September 26, stargazers can expect an excellent view when the giant planet reaches opposition. From the viewpoint of Earth’s surface, opposition happens when…

NASA Exoplanets confirmed that there are more than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system. It also said that the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Telescope are helping learn more about faraway worlds.…