A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Astronomical realist painters play a crucial, yet often underappreciated, role in synthesizing scientific data to visualize extraterrestrial environments, translating numerical measurements into human ...

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

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