For decades, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system—until Pluto was reclassified in 2006. But what if ...

Mercury is the most prone to divulging secrets, doing so swiftly and without discretion. Jupiter and Mars also struggle to ...

Pluto isn't alone—it's part of the Kuiper Belt with possibly hundreds of other planet-sized objects. Because Pluto hasn't ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar ... Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The solar system is portrayed as a dynamic, gossip-fueled family, with each planet offering snide comments about one another, ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

ASTRONOMERS may have just found the fastest exoplanet system in the galaxy – a super-Neptune world orbiting a hypervelocity ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...