Scientists may add a new dwarf planet to the official roster of our solar system. The distant, icy body, provisionally dubbed ...

The orbits of the planets around the sun have been the source for many a scientific debate. Their current orbital properties are well understood but the planetary orbits have evolved and changed since ...

The findings, published in two companion papers in The Astronomical Journal on 8 September, offer a closer look at ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have found a rare disk of debris ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...

NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes have uncovered surprising clues about the solar system’s origins by studying 27 tiny, distant objects beyond Neptune. Scientists discovered that these ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found what might be a new dwarf planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun on an inclined ...

A six-planet solar system around the star HD110067, a near sun-like star roughly one hundred light years away, has stunned scientists by its rarity. In other words, there are many stars that have ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first exomoon outside our Solar System, challenging the definitions of planets and moons ...