On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker ...
A comet tearing through the inner solar system at roughly 58 kilometers per second formed between 10 and 12 billion years ago ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...
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This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...
This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST ...
While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...
Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...
The solar system isn’t as flat as it seems. This video reveals the hidden 3D structure surrounding our planetary plane, from ...
Using MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA (Max Planck Institute ...