Medicine & TechnologyResearch carried out on the climate impacts of the tectonics, rotation rate, and isolation has explored two probable situations out of which one is the supercontinent’s formation at low latitudes.
Planet Nine's orbit has been discovered, and its route around the sun has been plotted by new research. The planet is estimated to have a mass of 6.2 times that of the Earth and is 300 AU from the sun.
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) released a controversial definition of "planet" that left Pluto out. But some astronomers were against this definition that demoted the distant orb.
Next week, planet Jupiter is set to a position opposite the sun. It then makes this giant planet visible when the sun sets and vanishes, and again, when it rises.
Young astronaut Alyssa Carson said the sun would run out of fuel to burn," and conditions on Earth will be quite different from the regular life humans spend at present.
The joint American-European Solar Orbiter spacecraft "had an appointment with Venus" yesterday morning, the first "in a series of planetary flybys" to hone the orbit of a probe on its journey to the sun.
The Earth-size planet has winds four times the speed of sound with temperatures of about 3,000 degrees Centigrade on one side - hot enough to vaporize rock.