Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Pluto is back! His adventures searching for the mysterious dwarf planets continue! Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Barnard’s Star, discovered by American astronomer E.E. Barnard in 1916, is a low-mass red dwarf ... planets form — and which ones could be habitable for life. “When compared to our solar ...