Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It’s incomplete but meant to represent the orbital path of the gas giant, and ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

Reference Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system in order from nearest to the sun and discover the many wonders of our solar system along the way. An object seen to have moved in the ...

Scientists using JWST have identified WD 1856+534 b—the coldest exoplanet yet—circling a dead star, revealing surprising ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified WD 1856b, the coldest exoplanet ever observed, orbiting a white dwarf star.

Astronomers may have found a candidate for Planet Nine. This planet is beyond Neptune. The finding could be the first ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

A 9th planet in our solar system might be found — and no, it’s not Pluto - Is there another planet out there? Researchers say ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

As seductive Pluto turns retrograde in Aquarius from May 4 to October 13, distance from the digital realm might be the most ...

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...