Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

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Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

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The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have discovered around 5,800 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system. Among them, scientists have proposed the existence of “Hycean worlds” — planets covered in vast ...

Probing these wacky celestial bodies can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study author Thomas Baycroft with the ...