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NASA’s James Webb telescope captured its first direct image of a distant gas giant, revealing groundbreaking insights into ...

Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

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This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...