For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Recent research suggests a warp in the orbital plane of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) between 80 and 400 AU, hinting at the ...

The immensity of space makes it impossible for humans to discover every hiding place the universe holds. Its infinitude makes ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being ...