Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is third most dense sub-Saturn class located at the ...

However, as telescopes increased in sophistication, astronomers discovered more planets, confirming the eight in our solar system. As technology continues to progress, though, could we uncover a new ...

It would depend on a lot, say our readers, from how big it was to the route it took - but it could have significant ...

But it does open a lot of room for things in the future – especially with NASA and other space agencies planning manned missions to Mars and other planets in our solar system. Josh Hawkins has ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

NARRATOR: Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and its gravitational pull ... I still have that new excitement because you don't know what's going to be happening.