Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

A rather new adaptive optics system dubbed Cona has just opened a new window into the mysterious world of the Sun's corona, ...

WASHINGTON: A group of scientists has found a strange new object about 435 miles wide at the far edge of the solar system. It ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

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

The object’s aphelion the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

Jaw-dropping new views of the Sun reveal incredible plasma ‘raindrops’. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed images ...

Comets are icy bodies that orbit the Sun, often referred to as ‘dirty snowballs’. Learn about their composition, formation, ...