A team of astronomers believes they may have spotted a serious candidate for a ninth planet in our Solar System. This object, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed surface ice methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

It has not been detected formally. Instead, astronomers have inferred its presence from perceived perturbations of the orbits ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) –Exploration of the outer solar system is offering critical clues about its history. Scientists have ...

Researchers studying mysterious objects at the edge of the solar system with the James Webb Space Telescope find origin of ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

UCF scientists and collaborators analyzed far-away bodies — known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) — and found varying ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on distant icy worlds. In a distant corner of our solar system called ...

Binary systems are common among large trans-Neptunian objects, yet their formation mechanisms remain debated. Traditional theories, like the streaming instability—where gas drag in the ...