An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

One set of dots had matching colors and brightness. open image in gallery Is there a possible ninth planet in our solar system? Researchers say they may have found a candidate (Credit: ESO/Tom ...

Astronomers may have found a candidate for Planet Nine. This planet is beyond Neptune. The finding could be the first ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

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