In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth’s neighbouring planets. To 1950s stargazers, the planet Venus looked like “a ...

While the four inner planets of the solar system – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, ...

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This huge astrological shift is a total game-changer. Here’s how Pluto in Aquarius will affect you—for the next two decades.

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

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Like other stars, the sun will eventually run out of energy and end up engulfing mercury and venus, possibly earth as well. The sun is about 150 million kilometers away from the earth.