Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat. “The planets of the solar system have slight tilts up and down, but ...
What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...
Astronomers have discovered fresh evidence suggesting the possible existence of an unseen planet in the far reaches of our solar system.
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...
The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...