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Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

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At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

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The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

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In "More Everything Forever," Adam Becker unpacks the flaws in the dreams of tech pioneers to reshape the world to come.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) with 2006 data from Japan’s AKARI mission in ...