A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...
A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightened after passing the Sun, with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warning it could be a hostile alien spacecraft whilst NASA's SPHEREx telescope shows nor ...