Scientists say this does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation. The post NASA ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

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

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

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

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

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.

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

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...