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

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Researchers from Nagoya City University, Tohoku University, and other institutions have used numerical simulations to ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held ...

Perseverance has so far found a rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls, which is the strongest evidence of something possibly modified by life. It is the weakest possibility of life signal on NASA’s CoLD scale, ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...