A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...