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A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

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