A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

A rare celestial object beyond Neptune, 2020 VN40, moves in sync with Neptune, offering new insights into the outer solar system and fueling the search for Planet Nin ...

SCOTS may be able to catch a glimpse of Pluto this week as it reaches peak brightness. The dwarf planet is set to be at its ...

The post Scientists Might Just Have Discovered Another Dwarf Planet Sibling For Pluto first on TwistedSifter. In 2006, Ceres – located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt – was officially ...

A transiting exoplanet has revealed a huge "spot" near the pole of its tiny M-dwarf parent star. The spot has been around at least 7 years and occupies 7% of the sun's surface.

V1298 Tau b, as the planet is called, is a proto-sub-Neptune. With an estimated mass around times our planet, it is smaller than Neptune, which weighs over 17 Earths. The planet is extremely young, ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

Theories about Planet Nine have been swirling for years, but this newly discovery planet might put those theories to bed for good.

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.