An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen ... because we have nothing directly analogous to them here in our ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...