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Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

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For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space ...

Heavy hydrogen could be important in long-range detections of civilizations, says a pioneering astronomical study.

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So far, the vast majority of these planets have been gas giants (3,826) or ...