A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of formation around a young ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This celestial event has sparked a flurry of scientific interest and speculation.

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