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Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...