This is what Pluto does the only known object the solar system, where haze, not gas molecules, plays a key role in climate. Back in 2017, astronomer Xi Zhang from the University of California ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system. Tech. Smartphones; ...

The far reaches of our solar system could be far more crowded than previously believed. Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF201, a distant object with an extreme 25,000-year orbit that may be a new ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system.. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

The Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system past Neptune’s orbit, is likely home to hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of icy objects that vary in shape and size.Over 2,000 trans-Neptunian ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new dwarf planet. It's called 2017 OF 201, a rock that appears to be some 700 ...

A distant trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF 201, has been identified at the solar system's edge, potentially qualifying as a dwarf planet with an estimated diameter of 700 km.