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Astronomers have confirmed 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, with thousands more awaiting verification, marking a ...

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 ...

It's hard enough to imagine the size of the universe; try wrapping your head around some of the largest known things within it that we've observed so far.

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring ...