The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

The solar system's journey through the galaxy is more complex than most imagine. While we often picture planets orbiting the ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say. November 30, ... Their orbits range from nine to 54 days, ...

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian said in a statement. "It shows that even very distant ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. ... Zoozve, but this does not count because it actually orbits the sun, not Venus. Moving on, we come to Earth.