Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

Only NASA's New Horizons spacecraft—one of five spacecraft that have reached the outer solar system—has managed to fly ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

This does not even consider other types of stars, like our own yellow Sun. Rocky planets orbiting in an M-dwarf’s habitable ... (located in the Alpha Centauri system four light-years away ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be key to discovering a ninth planet in our Solar System that has so far remained in ...

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

According to a report on Earth.com, a mysterious force has caused the boundaries of our solar system to expand, likely due to a passing star. Astrophysicist Susanne Pfalzner from Forschungszentrum ...

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun's ninth ...

Now, research has uncovered a warm ocean hiding out there in our solar system. It's the most unlikely of places, too. Scientists have been focusing on the Kuiper Belt, which is found past the orbit of ...

Interplanetary travel is the focus of the first concert of the Aiken Symphony’s 2024-25 season. Set for Friday, Sept. 20, the ...