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When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...
How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...
Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...
Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...
Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.
That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...
This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...
Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...
A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of conventional astronomy theory, and is making experts reconsider conventional ...
Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...