Far beyond Neptune, something heavy appears to be tugging on the outer solar system, bending the paths of distant icy worlds ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as an ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

The Outer planets have been vacillating indecisively, shifting in and out of new signs (Retrograding). However, the Outer ...

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Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

Full Moons occur roughly once a month, and 2026 brings us the standard 12 Full Moons. Throughout the year, Full Moons are a ...

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn’t have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in the universe. But, ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...