Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The small new world -- temporarily named ...
Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new ... Detailed Map of Dust in the Milky Way Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first ...
Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being ...
"This work highlights Euclid’s remarkable ability to detect and characterize dwarf galaxies, enabling a comprehensive view of ...
Recent discoveries unveiled strange radio signals from a binary star system in the Ursa Major constellation, 1,600 light-years away. These pulses, det ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...