"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

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An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

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A polar orbit is a trajectory where an object, such as a planet, revolves around another by passing over its poles. Unlike equatorial orbits, which follow the plane of the central object's equator, ...

A massive 950-foot asteroid, 612356 (2002 JX8), will make a close Earth flyby tomorrow, May 9. Here is all you need to know ...

Earth travels through and with a cloud of debris as the planet makes tracks around the sun. Some of that material is ...