Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

A distant, icy world has just been added to our solar system’s official roster, and its strange orbit might challenge one of ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

The universe is dying much sooner than scientists previously thought. But there's still going to be a long wait until then.

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...