NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic ...

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...