A mystery lurks at the edge of our solar system. A team of researchers might have uncovered an unexpected structure that ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

The dust speck has a name ... at the birth of our solar system. They were stunned by what they saw. Scientists have long known that the planets, comets, and other bodies orbiting the sun were ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

The Working Group on Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN ... IAU catalogues and formal names of all celestial objects. An Indian-American aerospace engineer, who graduated from NIT-C in mechanical ...

previewing the upcoming epic five-part series about the celestial neighborhood that Earth is a part of, from BBC Studios and Nova. The Solar System trailer dives into, as its name suggests ...

Now, the icy body ... Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in South Africa, hence the comet’s namesake, according to NASA. The celestial object comes from the Oort Cloud, “a mostly spherical ...

The thin atmosphere leaves very little to protect the Moon from asteroids. Early in the solar system's formation, all planets and moons were bombarded with rocks. The thin atmosphere on the Moon has ...