Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...
The 95th anniversary of Pluto's official discovery by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona is rapidly approaching and the historic location is gearing up to host a grand ...
While the James Webb Space Telescope looks for the most distant galaxies ever seen, astronomers have discovered something new in our very own solar system. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have ...
The planet Neptune wobbled in its orbit around the Sun. That could only mean one thing, astronomers said: There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system.
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