Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues — Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen — are once again redefining our solar system’s edge. They ...

Astronomers discovered a planetoid orbiting the sun further than any known object in the solar system. Called "Farfarout," the object orbits the sun every 1,000 years. Objects like Farfarout could ...

A darkened planet circling the feeble remnant of a burned-out star about 6,000 light-years from Earth shows what our own solar system will look like at the end of its existence, astronomers say. The ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

The worst part about being a werewolf (we suspect) is the loss of control. One day, you’re an ordinary person living out your life and the next day you’re an advice columnist living in the middle of ...

The blue regions show areas where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected clear signs of water vapor in a distant star system. Credit: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / S. Facchini ...

If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India When you ...

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

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