The object’s aphelion the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said ...

The object’s aphelion – the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun – is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said Sihao Cheng of the Institute for Advanced Study, discussing the ...

1 of 9 This digital collage brings together our solar system and points beyond in one view. Illustration by NASA/JPL Too small to be called planets, asteroids are rocky chunks that also orbit our ...

In the early 90s’ scientists combed through data and found something surprising that led to the discovery of planets beyond our solar system. It changed science forever. National Corporate ...

Both inside and outside the solar system, aurorae light ... across the poles, giving our magnetosphere a comet-like tail that extends into the shadowy space beyond Earth’s nightside.

We have landed on a water world. When astronomers began discovering planets outside our solar system in the 1990s, they realised that alien worlds come in an array of orbits, masses, sizes and ...

We’ll have to learn to love the one we’re with and stop looking beyond to impossible frontiers and instead turn our curious eyes and minds to the wonders and mysteries of our own Solar System.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system -- using a technique known as 'transit timing variation'. In research ...

There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan ... disturbances in space objects just beyond Neptune, also known as trans-Neptunian objects ...

Astronomers always knew spotting moons around planets outside the solar system would be no mean feat — but a debate currently raging in planetary science circles shows just how tough detecting ...

The ring system is around a dwarf planet, named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the sun beyond Neptune ... new ring system in our solar system, and it was doubly ...

In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our ... beyond that lasting longer. There are objects in the Solar System ...