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The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but instead a directed craft.

New moons are the cardinal phase of the monthly lunar cycle, and they occur when the sun and moon meet at the same point in ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

The other object is 2014 NX 65, which is definitely not resonant with Uranus but might have an inner 3:2 resonance with ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

A team of astronomers confirms the existence of a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a 35-liter red dwarf.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...