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The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

The early solar system is still a bit of a mystery to scientists, but the secret to learning Jupiter's origins might be ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.