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

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

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

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

The recently discovered interstellar object 3I/Atlas is set for a close flyby of Mars in October, where it can be observed by ...