solar

This weekend, NASA is set to launch a spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar system’s largest asteroids. It is the ninth mission out of 10 planned in NASA’s Discovery program that employs...

Washington: Planet-seekers who have spotted 28 new planets orbiting other stars in the past year say Earth’s solar system is far from unique and there could be billions of habitable planets. The most recent discoveries bring the number of known exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – to...