Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

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Kamala HQ changed its X username again after the account was rebranded as the progressive content media hub Headquarters. The X and TikTok accounts relaunched on Thursday under the new brand name ...

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many ...

Musk is saying this Moon project can be finished in less than ten years. Compare this with Mars building a city there would ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has used a water blob to explain Earth's shape. Discover the physics of surface tension, rotation, and inertia in this space and physics explainer.

The curious minds at What If predict the effects if Planet X entered our solar system, revealing orbital chaos, climate ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...