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Astronomy Jul 16, 2025

Subaru telescope discovers 'fossil' in outer solar system

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

Planetary Sciences Jul 15, 2025

Rare distant object 2020 VN40 found in perfect sync with Neptune

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, that is moving in rhythm with the giant planet. ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 14, 2025

Scores of exoplanets may be larger than realized

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It's a finding that could change which distant worlds researchers consider ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 14, 2025

Scientists resolve Uranus heat puzzle, revealing lingering internal warmth

A new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide, suggests Uranus does have its own internal heat—an advance that not only informs NASA's future missions but also ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 10, 2025

Dune patterns in California desert hold clues that help researchers map Mars' shifting sands

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, to the Algodones Dunes, ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 10, 2025

This planet makes its star flare and the planet suffers because of it

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are close to the star, these ...

Astronomy Jul 7, 2025

The birth of a solar system revealed by planet 'pebbles'

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming "pebbles" around two young stars.

Astronomy Jul 6, 2025

Astronomers have discovered another puzzling interstellar object—this third one is big, bright and fast

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025.

Astronomy Jul 2, 2025

Clingy planets can trigger their own doom, Cheops and TESS suggest

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet's wispy ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 2, 2025

Astronomers discover a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby star

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new super-Earth exoplanet that orbits a nearby M dwarf star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1846 b, ...

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