A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

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This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

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Our solar system has always seemed a vast place, even to the most ancient astronomers who knew little of the universe other than what the sun, moon, and stars could reveal to the naked eye.

Scientists have determined that around 14 million years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and might have experienced increased interstellar dust, which could ...

If America’s humanitarian aid system were a business, it would have collapsed long ago. No enterprise — public or private — can sustain itself without demonstrating value, yet for decades ...

Our sun belongs to a spiraling galaxy filled with star-forming neighborhoods. Astronomers recently found that our entire solar system traveled through a dense region in the constellation Orion about ...

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Occasionally, their different speeds and distances align them from Earth’s perspective. The planets of our solar system along the ecliptic. Credit: NASA These alignments are not uncommon, but the more ...

The unique alignment, set to conclude on Friday, occurs when the planets in our solar system, which are orbiting the sun, line up from the Earth’s perspective. While Mars, Jupiter and Saturn ...