The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study ...
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A frozen new world called Ammonite at the solar system’s edge may erase the case for Planet Nine
Astronomers have identified a small, frozen world orbiting far beyond Neptune whose strange path complicates one of the most ...
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NASA’s IMAP probe reached L1 to map the edge of the solar system
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe reached its final orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on Jan. 10, 2026.
A 24-year-old observatory assistant from the Midwest discovered Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois, ...
When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...
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Pluto losing its planet status may be the best thing that ever happened to solar system diversity
Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar ...
New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...
Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.
Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...
Since the first discovery of a planet orbiting another star in 1992, some 280 alien solar systems have been identified. Most look quite unlike ours, and for good reason. Planets are mainly spied by ...
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