Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

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The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

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Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

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What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.