Led by Purdue University assistant professor Cauê Borlina during his time at MIT, alongside senior author Benjamin Weiss, the ...

Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar ...

A 24-year-old observatory assistant from the Midwest discovered Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois, ...

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Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

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Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...

Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary ...

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Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...