New evidence suggests Ceres could be one of the most important places to explore in the solar system. Donald Trump's ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the solar system closest to ...

This discovery represents a major milestone in the search for exoplanets around our nearest Sun-like neighbour.

A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. So far, there are only four known ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...

In 2006, and after much debate, the International Astronomical Union came up with a new definition for a planet. And for the first time, the term "dwarf planet" was used. Dwarf Planets ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on ...

Chalk up a moon for the icy dwarf planet Makemake. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected a tiny, dark moon circling the dwarf planet on the frozen fringes of our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered a new pink dwarf planet that has the most distant orbit in our solar system. The discovery suggests there could be thousands of similar planets beyond the known edge of ...

Dwarf Planets NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in the July 2015, snapping several photos of the dwarf planet and its giant, heart-shaped geographical feature.