Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

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As Pluto is the most distant of the nine planets, its 248-year orbit around the Sun is lengthy compared with human timescales. It is also the most eccentric: Pluto's heliocentric distance varies ...

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Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

The Webb Telescope found two young planets forming sand clouds in the YSES‑1 system, revealing unprecedented details about ...