Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

O penAI's large language model (LLM) ChatGPT is surprisingly good at piloting spacecraft, according to a team that trained it ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

The orbits of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter are shown. As Earth orbits the sun, it gets to the same place at the same time each year. Venus will always be seen near the sun in the sky. Sometimes Venus is ...

A new paper examining and simulating the formation of wide-orbit planets has put the chances of our own Solar System harboring the hypothetical "Planet Nine" at up to 40 percent. In 2016, two ...

This link, called "trapping efficiency," shows how often scattered planets end up in stable wide orbits. The research found that in solar system-like conditions, trapping happens about 5–10% of ...

Planetary waves are connected to 2021's deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heat wave and Pakistan flooding, and the 2003 killer European heat wave, the study said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep ...

Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave, the study said.