Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

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Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system, was caught shedding dust in a dramatic teardrop-shaped cocoon as it traveled through the inner ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

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