She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. ... and many systems contain super-Earth planets.

Scientists think they’ve worked out what an Earth-like planet in our neighboring star system could look like. Astronomers are always hunting for exoplanets, which are just planets outside our ...

There's something big missing from our solar system — and that may be a good thing. Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth ...

When it comes to making Earth more habitable, researchers work extra hard. Therefore, researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has created an alternative solar system ...

Our Solar System hasn’t always had the arrangement of planets we see today. Past iterations put other planets through the wringer, and some of them got booted — including a long-lost alternate ...

So, if one Earth can sustain 8 billion humans (a figure that is somewhere between conservative and generous, given our perilous impact on the planet thus far), then the solar system gets enough ...

How our Solar System's hottest planet and Earth's sister world may have been a better bet for life than ... it seems to me we should not limit our imagination as it leads to alternate hypothesis." ...

Studying images of similar solar systems is like looking at a childhood photo album. “We can’t, during our lifetime, look at how a planetary system is born and how it evolves,” Reggiani told me.

SCIENTISTS think they’ve worked out what an Earth-like planet in our neighboring star system could look like. Astronomers are always hunting for exoplanets, which are just planets outside our… ...