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

Astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

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

OF201 is incredibly lightweight on a cosmic scale. Scientists estimate its mass is about 20,000 times less than Earth’s and ...

A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

The best astronomy cameras open a window to the universe, revealing celestial wonders invisible to the naked eye. This buying ...

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

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

are needed to determine the object's exact size. Cheng discovered the object as part of an ongoing research project to identify TNOs and possible new planets in the outer solar system. The object ...

Some became rocks the size of baseballs, others the size of a house, and a few as big as a planet. This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and ...

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...