As more of the solar system has been explored and imaged, all kinds of geographical features have been mapped on many of our ...

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

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 ...

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

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

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NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

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Whether or not such observations reveal the long-suspected existence of a hidden planet in our solar system, or simply raise new questions about the existing anomalies in our solar system, remains to ...