T he sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

Three environmental groups argued Wednesday before the California Supreme Court that state utility regulators acted illegally ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...