The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

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Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

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It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming long-held theories about how young planets shape their star systems.

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...