Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant, as it challenges the hypothesis of Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet thought to exist in the outer Solar System.

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

A distant, icy world has just been added to our solar system’s official roster, and its strange orbit might challenge one of ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stopped classifying Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet and demoted its ...

Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but could these two issues ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.