In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new dwarf planet. It's called 2017 OF 201, a rock that appears to be some 700 ...
You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there's a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets the eye (or telescope). Most of the good stuff, such as the planets, moons ...
In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the edge of the Solar System and the interstellar medium between the stars ...
The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...
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A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...
CAMBRIDGE, England–When planetary scientists announced on July 29 that they had discovered a new planet larger than Pluto, the news overshadowed the two other objects the group had also found. But all ...
A bright comet with large dust and gas trails as the comets orbit brings it close to the Sun. Illustration. The much-heralded Vera Rubin Observatory —- due to come online early next year in northern ...
Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...