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What lies beyond Neptune? Is it just empty space… or something far more mysterious? In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Oort Cloud – a gigantic, icy sphere that surrounds our Solar ...

Did you know that the National Air rand Space Museum has researchers that study the solar system? Planetary scientists Sharon Wilson Purdy, Mariah Baker, and Emily Martin from our Center for Earth and ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc ...

In 2015, a NASA spacecraft snapped spectacular photographs of Pluto, forever changing humanity’s view of that world. On Tuesday that same probe, New Horizons, will provide a closeup of the farthest ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.