If three’s a crowd, then six makes a chorus. That’s the case at least for a rare six-planet solar system whose discovery has wowed astronomers, even in an era when detecting planets around distant ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" body residing on the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research. The object – which goes by the formal designation 2023 KQ14 but is nicknamed ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Researchers have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto they believe strengthens the case for a large planet at the outer reaches of our solar system. The newly found object is called ...

NASA/ESA/CSA/Anne-Marie Lagrange (CNRS, UGA)/Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb) Located around 111 light years away from our solar system, and thus being quite close in space ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system. Discovered by the University of Oxford, its origin in the Milky Way's thick disk ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system,a gas behemoth the size of Neptune. Plenty of planets exist beyond our solar system, but a moon around one of ...

After gazing upon a distant star, an international team of scientists may have discovered the “missing link” behind the origins of water in our solar system. Their findings, published in Nature last ...