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A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one University of ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

A rare comet from another star system is revealing just how different alien solar systems may be from our own.

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System." The post Visitor Approaches From the ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...