Our solar system consists of four small, rocky, inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and four large, gaseous, outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).

The ongoing search for an additional planet at the solar system's edge has identified a new candidate, potentially challenging previous predictions. A research team from Taiwan, Japan and ...

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." The world's largest solar telescope has gained a powerful new "eye" that ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has detected the chemical fingerprints of possible signs of life on a planet outside the solar system. Using data from the James Webb Space ...

drenching Earth and the entire solar system in a flood of electrons, protons, and helium nuclei. But this isn't a smooth breeze—it's a turbulent river with fast and slow currents that spark ...

But due to steep cost drops and increases in solar system efficiency levels, several other countries have rapidly increased their solar capacity over the past decade or so. As a result ...

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It was a rare cosmic collision — and the sky responded in technicolor. A rare and rowdy “cannibal” solar eruption slammed into Earth this week, which painted the sky in jaw-dropping color ...

Toward the end of March, OpenAI said it intended to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 sometime this year. Now, details about that model are beginning to trickle out from ...