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How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.
Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.
The Voyager probes we sent from Earth back in the 70s found an incredible 'wall of fire' at the edge of our solar system ...
A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...
JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...
A field star drifting within 10,000 astronomical units may be enough. This could rattle the Oort Cloud, the icy shell at the ...
OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...
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In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...
Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...
Scientists at Rice University believe there’s a 40% chance that a mysterious ninth planet — Planet Nine — could be orbiting far beyond Neptune and Pluto in the icy Kuiper Belt. This potential ...