Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

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Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician ... Although the central body of the Solar System is about 93 million miles from our planet, it does not remain indifferent to us. An example is the ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System (6-8) The solar system consists of the sun and a collection of objects, including planets, their moons ... drawn together by gravity. Kepler’s laws describe common ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...