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

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

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 ...

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.

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once ...

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.

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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

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 ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...