It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

Scientists had previously believed that no celestial bodies existed in the vast, empty section of space beyond Neptune.

The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system. Astronomers have indeed discovered a potential new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond ...

The TNO is potentially large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, the same category as the much more well-known Pluto. The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system ...

Image Credit: images of dwarf planets from ... similar to Pluto's orbit.” The discovery of this object will certainly cause issues in the hunt for Planet 9 – a hypothetical planet larger ...

Some became rocks the size of baseballs, others the size of a house, and a few as big as a planet. This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and ...

The International Astronomical Union, which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, is the arbiter of such classifications. Andrea has written about NASA and the commercial space sector ...

Ouch. Now officially labeled a “dwarf planet,” Pluto may have lost its title, but not our affection. After all, who doesn’t love a comeback story waiting to happen? To find out how Pluto ...

In this region, objects in space could cross any dwarf planet — and Pluto’s — orbit. Pluto also sits within a larger field of objects surrounding the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.