Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

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A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

Astronomers have just discovered a new celestial body in our solar system that could challenge major space theory. 2017 OF201 ...