Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

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Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

This region actually encapsulates our entire solar system, and is formed as a result ... dominated by the solar wind and the rest of the universe, leaving our cosmic neighborhood in this sort ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

Definitely not. Extremely large objects can distort our understanding of the cosmos. Astronomers have found the largest structure in the Universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system.

Feb. 6, 2025 — Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these ...