Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stopped classifying Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet and demoted its ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent discoveries.

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system that challenges long-held assumptions about where planets can ...