Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.

A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

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

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

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity — and could even give clues about possible life on other planets.

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

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...