For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a potential dwarf planet, nicknamed Ammonite, orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, challenging the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Researchers from Caltech Catch Dwarf Planets Helping Space 'Vampire' For a long time, astronomers have known that over the years, dead stars, often called “cosmic vampires,” strip away plasma from ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence of a long-standing theory about Planet Nine, or Planet X.

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...