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

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

sitting in the Kuiper Belt - a region in our solar system beyond Neptune filled with icy objects, comets, and dwarf planets like Pluto. Since this hidden planet may be so far away, the new study ...

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

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"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...