Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONOLULU (NEXSTAR/KHON) — A research team at ...

For a long time, Pluto was the farthest object we knew about in the solar system, but it’s a cosmic stone’s-throw away compared to more recent discoveries. Now astronomers have confirmed what is ...

This illustration depicts the most distant object yet found in our Solar System, nicknamed "Farfarout," in the lower right. Along the bottom, various Solar System objects are plotted according to ...

Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...

This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed Farfarout might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva Astronomers have confirmed the orbit of ...

American space agency NASA revealed it already used 12 major space assets to track and study the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" body residing on the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research. The object – which goes by the formal designation 2023 KQ14 but is nicknamed ...

A team of astronomers has confirmed the orbit of a distant planetoid at the farthest reaches of our solar system — aptly nicknamed "Farfarout." The minor planet, officially designated 2018 AG37, is ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...