Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...
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Across the outer solar system, a new perspective on Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

The outer solar system begins where sunlight fades and distances stretch beyond everyday comprehension. This journey traces ...

AI tool observes solar active regions to advance warnings of space weather

New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric ...
Scientific American

Our solar system is surrounded by weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know why

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Discover an Exoplanet in the Wrong Place, Hinting at a Planetary System That Was Born ‘Inside Out’

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
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Inside the Milky Way: Mapping the vast galactic home around our solar system

Our solar system is just a tiny island within a vast galactic sea. This journey moves outward to explore the structure of the Milky Way, from its spiral arms to its mysterious core. Discover how our ...