The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

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

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

The Blackrock Castle telescope gives astronomers and visitors alike a window on other worlds, exploring the possibility of ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Scientists had previously believed that no celestial bodies existed in the vast, empty section of space beyond Neptune.

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, ...

Former NTSB and FAA crash investigator Jeff Guzzetti said he thinks dense fog and fatigue after the pilot flew all night long ...