Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

A new look through decades-old data has unveiled some of the most compelling evidence yet of a hidden ninth planet in the far ...

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

At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else — from the eight major planets to dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and icy objects ...

Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond ...

The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

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Scientists believe that they have discovered a new planet in the Earth's solar system, with NASA naming the finding 'Planet X' ...