A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...
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Voyager Probes Picked Up Something Scientists Didn’t Expect Right on Our Solar System’s Edge
Voyager Probes Picked Up Something Scientists Didn’t Expect Right on Our Solar System’s Edge ...
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Why comet grew brighter as it passed through our solar system
The mysterious space rock that passed through our solar system grew significantly brighter as it left, according to scientists. Researchers say Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggested to be a hostile alien ...
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For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there’s an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven’t been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another “Planet Nine” candidate — formerly ...
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