A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did every planet suddenly get a twin? Where would each planet’s double fit in? Why ...

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 ...

Astronomers have been given a new and incredibly detailed look at a very familiar astronomical object thanks to the James ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...