Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

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Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Stars are some of the most mysterious things in the universe, and Przybylski’s Star (HD 101065) is one of the weirdest of all ...

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The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew ...

The possibility of Planet Nine being out there way beyond Pluto has always excited astronomers. They have now found one body ...

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, ...