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"We have no way to determine how different exoplanets really look in detail yet, and this makes them a rich space for creativity." As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists ...

At Rolex, the creation of a dial is a unique form of alchemy – the coming together of traditional craftsmanship and ...

"The point was made quite legitimately that once you've done one solar system, doing 100 is really ... you have a formula for all the planets. When you're also trying to build your own spacecraft ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...

The largest celestial bodies in our solar system that still exist—massive asteroids and minor planets—are thought to be the last vestiges of this era of planetary formation. This is the period ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too? Though extra-terrestrial life in Tolkien's universe has not been ...