An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

Its highly elongated orbit takes it more than 1,600 times farther from the Sun than Earth, pushing it deep into the Oort cloud — the icy shell at the edge of the solar system. The find came from ...

Penalising energy-conscious citizens with high fixed charges discourages investment in solar and punishes those reducing their reliance on a failing system. South Africa's energy recovery depends ...

So far away, in fact, OF201 would take 25,000 Earth years to complete a solar lap. Its orbit even swings out into the Oort Cloud – a sphere ... planet in our solar system has been going on ...

While flares are intense bursts of radiation, filament eruptions, or Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), involve vast clouds of solar ... particles from beyond our solar system. During intense solar ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system. It’s one of the roughly 4,000 known comets among the billions estimated to exist in ...

South Africa enters winter with a cautiously optimistic outlook: for the first time in years, the dreaded spectre of loadshedding may retreat - provided that unplanned outages remain below 13GW.

Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere ... The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. Volcanoes rage on Io's ...