A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

When NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021, its success depended on one crucial task — keeping its ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...