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Earth’s orbit around the Sun defines everything we take for granted. Day and night, the seasons, and the steady presence of ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
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Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...
Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.