Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

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

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

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

Today, let's talk about an extremely mysterious celestial body in the solar system — Sedna. Did you know that it takes Sedna about 11,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun? It moves slowly at ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...