3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

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Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Oceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons are tantalizing targets for scientists looking for life beyond Earth ...

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A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Legend has it that somewhere beyond Neptune and Pluto, there is a ninth planet, with a mass that is five times greater than ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...