Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...