Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

Pluto, once the ninth planet, remains one of the most fascinating worlds in our solar system despite its reclassification as ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Later, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, yet its mysterious charm has not diminished at all. Why is that? Because Pluto's complex and elusive terrain is like a mysterious key that may hold the ...

It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Unlike typical comets, ‘Oumuamua lacks rock or carbon-rich material. It is also much more elongated than other comets. It ...

On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...