A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

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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 ...

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TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

Researchers in the US have suggested there is a 40 percent chance a ninth planet could exist in our solar system. Planet Nine ...