Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

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Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

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The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

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NASA has just made a groundbreaking discovery—a new planet beyond Neptune that wasn’t there before! This mysterious find ...

For many years scientists have been wondering if a mysterious ninth planet lurks in our Solar system. “Planet Nine”, dubbed ... forcing us to remember the inexhaustible fund of unknown matters that ...