Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in our solar system (after giving Pluto ... “All those people who are mad that Pluto is no longer a planet can be thrilled to ...

"For the first time in over 150 years, there is solid evidence that the solar system's planetary census is incomplete." No observational evidence for Planet Nine has been found, although this is ...

In contrast, some planets in our solar system have massively different tilts, leading to more extreme changes throughout the year. For instance, Mercury has no tilt, so "there's almost no seasonal ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...

China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of which have never been visited by a spacecraft before. The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a ...

The object’s aphelion the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said ...

Here’s 11 ‘facts’ you were probably taught at school which were either never true in the first place or are no longer correct ...