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Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

A rare comet from another star system is revealing just how different alien solar systems may be from our own.

The presence of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed in a much colder place before our solar system existed.

Scientists detected a mysterious object entering the Solar System from deep space — and it immediately started raising ...

Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun ...

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn’t in the ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...