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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object ...

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

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The nebular hypothesis states that stars and the planets that orbit them form from the same reservoir of material, called a ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission originally set out to prove. When the spacecraft slammed into the small asteroid ...

The Sun is the most important star in our solar system, acting as the central force around which all planets—including ...

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Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Let me tell you just how volcanic it is.