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This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Astronomers are tracking strange orbital patterns in the outer Solar System that suggest a massive unseen planet may exist ...

Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat.

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night sky at once this week. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a great ...

Astronomers gazing upon a star system not too far from Earth were recently treated to a marvelous discovery: a group of six planets moving around a sun-like star in a seemingly perfect cosmic dance ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

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