Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...

Astronomers studying extreme planetary systems have identified worlds so massive that they rival the smallest stars in size. These giant planets blur the line between planetary and stellar ...

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though ...