Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

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

Researchers from Nagoya City University, Tohoku University, and other institutions have used numerical simulations to ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

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

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

Once thought to be a barren, rocky body, known as Ceres, it is now revealing itself as something far more interesting, in the ...

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

The California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee passed a bill that would renege more than a million commitments to ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on distant icy worlds.