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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our ...

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Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

The Solar System is more than a flat plane of planets orbiting the Sun. Above and below lie vast, mysterious regions ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...

A rare celestial event is unfolding above Earth as a distant comet makes its way through the inner solar system for the first ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the edge of the Solar System and the interstellar medium between the stars ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object ...

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