For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star outside our solar system.

Japanese astronomers have discovered a potential dwarf planet, nicknamed Ammonite, orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, challenging the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

Researchers from Caltech Catch Dwarf Planets Helping Space 'Vampire' For a long time, astronomers have known that over the ...

Scientists are almost sure that there is a ninth planet. But a study by Japanese astronomers hints that this might not be true. A new cosmic body called a sednoid has been discovered near the Kuiper ...

Researchers have gained direct insights into the area where rocky planets, such as Earth, originate around young protostars.

NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...

Earth' planet that appears to flash a repeated signal from 154 light-years away.The planet, named TOI-1846 b, is almost twice the size of Earth and four times as massive.It orbits a small, cool red dw ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...