Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids, and comets. Most meteorites ...

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solar users can expect to fork out up to R30 000 to register their solar system, reported MyBroadband on 18 March 2025. Previous reports have revealed that the requirements that need to be met ...

Giant planets like these can form through two distinct processes: core accretion, where solid cores of heavier elements slowly attract gas (as happened in our Solar System), or disk instability, where ...

The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.