A research team, headed by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University, has recently uncovered new insights that contest the conventional standard model of cosmology.

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this BTN special, we go on a journey to the Solar System. We find out more about the NASA space ...

Pioneer 10 was the first probe to cross the asteroid belt, traversing it between July 1972 and February 1973. Arriving at Jupiter in December 1973, it passed some 132,000 kilometres from its cloud ...

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

IN a recent communication 1, Dr. M. M. Woolfson has outlined a model to account for the origin of the solar system. In common with many earlier hypotheses 2, he postulates an interaction between the ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

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