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

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

They found that volcanic gases lacked significant steam, indicating the planet's interior ... 1453 c is twice Earth’s size and may have a... Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

The discovery of this new, farther-out super Earth is even more significant ... than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and beyond shows us that planets, and especially super-Earths, in ...