A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.

The gravitational field can be used to determine the distribution of mass ... Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team) Swirling around the planet’s equator, the ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

Webb takes a closer look at Abell S1063, a distant galaxy cluster that acts like a cosmic lens, peering into the universe’s ...

In the case of the planets in the solar system, for instance, they describe elliptical orbits around the sun ... that is also ...

The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

In theory, this should create a slight electric field around our planet, as well as others like it. Hints of the electric field's existence were first detected in 1968 by spacecraft flying over ...

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may ... more powerful its gravitational field becomes, thereby ...