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A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...
Planet Nine should appear stationary over the course of a single day but show detectable movement over months.
Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...
Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...
Children at the Sylmar Branch Library were captivated by David Lehman, a volunteer NASA/JPL Solar System ambassador who knows ...
Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.
"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...
Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.
In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...
Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...
“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.