"Stars like the sun don’t just stop shining for no reason." ...

Just because Pluto was ruled out as a planet in 2006 doesn’t mean our solar system only has eight planets. The search for Planet Nine is far from over as scientists continue to uncover clues ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

Fast-moving objects like interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be planet-forming seeds, potentially helping to solve an old Solar System mystery. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object moving ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond our solar system. Researchers from Arizona State University's School of ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge new object far beyond Neptune, shaking our understanding of the solar system. The object, called 2017 OF201, is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), meaning it orbits the ...

"It's very rare to discover an object both large and with an exotic orbit." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A potential new dwarf ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...