Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

but new research suggests it was once even more massive than we imagined. Scientists believe that Jupiter played a crucial ...

Astronomers may be close to identifying a mysterious object in our solar system. New research points to a potential candidate ...

In a thrilling development that challenges long-held assumptions about the outer reaches of our solar system, astronomers ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stopped classifying Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet and demoted its ...

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...