Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 because it shares its orbital path with ...

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Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

Scientists have recently spotted a huge object far away in the cold outer reaches of our solar system. This 700-kilometer-wide object could be a new dwarf planet. It was discovered traveling a ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

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Astronomers have discovered a strange, bar-shaped iron structure within the Ring Nebula, which could be the remains of a ...