Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called into question—yet the matter seems far from settled. We asked experts from both sides to make their case. This 2015 NASA image of ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across ...

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.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

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

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed that millions of new solar ...

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

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.