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James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...
THE British legend that is Sir David Attenborough has launched a new attraction that feels like stepping straight into his documentaries. From watching a pack of gazelles try to outpace a hungry ...
NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.
If there were one, that Planet Nine would "nudge the closest part of 2017 OF201's trajectory inward until Neptune flung it out of the solar system." Because 2017 OF201 is there, that could be an ...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...
A newly discovered object called 2017 OF201, likely a dwarf planet, travels in an extremely wide elliptical orbit (yellow), a new study suggests. The orbit of the dwarf planets Sedna and Pluto are ...
For now, the outer reaches of our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system continue to be shrouded in mystery, with the classification of objects changing as scientists gain a new understanding of them ...
Its size is estimated to be a bit smaller than Ceres, which is the smallest of the solar system’s five recognized dwarf planets and has a diameter of about 590 miles (950 km).
Its size is estimated to be a bit smaller than Ceres, which is the smallest of the solar system's five recognized dwarf planets and has a diameter of about 590 miles (950 km).
Scientists hunting for Planet Nine, an elusive planetary body that could change our understanding of the solar system, have found something. Planet X is a hypothetical planet seven times the mass ...
New Minor Planet Spotted Past Pluto, One of the Largest Distant Objects in the Solar System The surprisingly large world has a massive orbit—about 838 times Earth’s distance from the Sun.