Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

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The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

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There's disappointment for astronomers as the newly-discovered bright green comet appears to have disintegrated ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

Webb discovered an early cosmic boom of "red monster" galaxies, surprising even seasoned researchers who thought they knew ...

Observations of exoplanets typically provide astronomers little more than an orbit, a mass and a radius. If the radius and ...

The possibility of Planet Nine being out there way beyond Pluto has always excited astronomers. They have now found one body ...