A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

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A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

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