No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's primary mirror is 8.4 meters in diameter, which makes it one of the largest optical ...

Brown says he couldn't have asked for a better telescope to hunt his celestial quarry. "If you were to hand me a big wad of cash and say, 'Go build a telescope to go either find this Planet 9 or ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will improve on the discovery of rogue planets by such instruments as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has discovered other rogue planets. The ...

Astronomers detect ‘most promising signs yet’ of life on other planets with shocking new discovery By . ... The planet was first photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016.

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is hidden in our solar system. Search Query Show Search. HOME.

But even if it doesn't spot Planet 9 directly, the Rubin Observatory might find some more minor planets, ones whose orbits might be affected by Planet 9. And that could provide additional evidence ...