Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show that opened to ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

A new dwarf planet discovery in the outer solar system is challenging the long-standing theory of a hidden giant planet ...

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

Freak accident’ finding has changed thinking on shape of the Oort Cloud, a theoretical area of deep space believed to be a ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

Cheng, together with graduate students from Princeton University, discovered the potential dwarf planet while searching for ...