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These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

Two projects using the James Webb Space Telescope will look at the auroras of Uranus and Saturn to discover what processes make them tick. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...