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New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.

Solar System Planets. Astronomy articles on the eight planets, plus the two dwarf planets, Pluto and Eris. Great pictures of everything in the solar system. Updated daily.

Google Maps in Space lets you "walk" the surface of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other entities in the Solar System, as well as the International Space Station. Here's how to use it.

Learn about the universe's earliest black hole, located within an unusually bright and red galaxy that was born 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Solar adoption reveals cracks in Pakistan's power system But the millions of new solar users — like Zia and his neighbors — are having an impact on the financing of Pakistan's power sector.

In this case, it likely originated in an unknown star system far across the Milky Way galaxy—but don’t expect astronomers to get more specific. “No one knows where the comet came from.

Still, the implications are profound. Ceres is far from alone in the solar system. Dozens of small, icy bodies — dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids — could have had similar histories.