The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history by flying past Pluto, sending back groundbreaking data that would change our ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described Ammonite, a potential dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Yesterday, astronomers announced ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) has achieved the most precise study to date of the L 98-59 planetary system ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the Université de Montréal has achieved the most ...

Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...