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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

“Using gravitational curvature radiation, we find that also neutron stars and white dwarfs decay in a finite time in the ...

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...