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I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...
A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...
Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
NASA has made a new out of this world discovery. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently captured evidence of a new planet ...
The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...
Astronomers are reporting the detection of a large object entering our solar system, and it is causing quite the stir in the ...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...