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

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from ...

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR ... orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

The IAU also estimates that there could be "more than 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which could have moons. "Just like the giant planet satellites ...

There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the ...

But such events are not just a treat for stargazers – they can also have a real impact on our Solar System ... many planets in orbit around certain stars. Trappist-1, a red dwarf star located ...

Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy worlds beyond Neptune's orbit. It's one of the fastest-spinning objects in our solar system. Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ...

It’s not a gorgeous picture you can hang up on your wall like a poster and say ... smaller dwarf galaxy. It has measured the motion of our solar system through space around the galactic ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...