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.

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about 10 million years. However, a groundbreaking discovery shows that for certain ...

FAI celebrates today the 10th anniversary of the start of Solar Impulse’s historic round-the-world flight, the first-ever circumnavigation powered solely by solar energy. On 9 March 2015, the ...

As per the researchers, even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice VII in the past. The findings could further help ...

A handful of 10th Planet Richmond students traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday to compete in the Grappling Industry event. With only six youth and six adult competitors able to secure ...

This illustration shows a lower mass star surrounded by its planet-forming disk of gas and dust. The planet formation process would cause gaps, not shown in this illustration, to appear in the disk.

Known as planet ... one-tenth of the sun's mass or less. "In a sense, protoplanetary disks provide us with baby pictures of planetary systems, including a glimpse of what our solar system may ...

Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars ... sparkling at about one-tenth the brightness of Venus. The string of planets ends in the eastern sky with Mars, easily ...

Dr Dan Brown, an astronomy expert here at Nottingham Trent University, explained to The Sun: "All planets including Earth move in more or less the same plane in our solar system. "So that from ...