Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

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.

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

So-called M dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way. A research team has determined around which of them Earth-like ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Dawn over Ceres, a mission of humankind. In December 2003, the Hubble Telescope spotted something peculiar on the surface of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.