A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

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

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

The accelerating global energy demand and the incapability of energy replenishment from finite sources of conventional fossil fuels necessitate a paradigm ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a planet. Shatner playfully s ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...