This Small, Icy World Could Rewrite What We Know About Our Solar System's Past

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...
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Here's Why We Still Don't Know How Many Solar Systems Are In The Milky Way

We refer to our own solar system as the solar system, and in a sense, it is the only one of its kind. For centuries, our sun was known as Sol, latin for sun and the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun ...
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It’s official: NASA confirms 6,000 hidden planets across the Milky Way, and we may not be alone

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...
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Dispatches from planet 3 : thirty-two (brief) tales on the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond / Marcia Bartusiak

Preface -- Earth Is but a Speck -- Celestial Neighborhood. Bedazzled by a Comet -- To Be...or Not to Be a Planet -- The Watery Allure of Mars -- Rings, Rings, Rings -- The Baffling White Dwarf Star -- ...
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Study concludes feared Milky Way-Andromeda collision may never happen

May 30 (UPI) --A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the solar ...
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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Fuels Debate Over Origins as Scientists Test Claims of Extreme Age

An interstellar object detected last summer has ignited a renewed debate among astronomers after researchers floated the possibility that it may have formed near the dawn of the Milky Way, challenging ...