15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ... the early solar system," Ben Rider-Stokes, a post-doctoral researcher at The Open University, told Space.com ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

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Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

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