A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

To reach Uranus is to journey into the absolute unknown. Situated in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, nearly 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, this Ice Giant is a world of paradoxes. It is ...

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Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A cluster of recent discoveries has shattered that tidy picture, revealing ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...

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The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying behavior similar to how stars form. Scientists aren't clear as to why. When you ...