In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the edge of the Solar System and the interstellar medium between the stars ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood, quietly ...

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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 ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar ...

Billy Bryan works on projects at RAND Europe that are funded by the UK Space Agency and DG DEFIS. He is affiliated with RAND Europe's Space Hub and is lead of the civil space theme, the University of ...

The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...