Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

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Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...