There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

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Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

A new U of A study challenges decades of scientific assumptions about the origin of Pluto and its moon Charon.

The potential discovery of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit could change everything we know about the Solar System.

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

Astronomers have spotted seven new examples of a cosmic phenomenon ... number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble asteroids but zip through space like ...

The researchers say that they also discovered a second cosmic tunnel that links our solar system to Canis Major ... For now, this new research, featured in Astronomy & Astrophysics, raises ...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our solar system. It wasn't aliens ... The discovery of ten new dark comets revealed last week was all thanks ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.