If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

The long-theorized Planet 9, which astronomers have speculated could be a Neptune-sized planet that has been lurking on the outer edge of the solar system ... dot on infrared images taken 23 ...

Astronomers engaged in the search for a hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system have identified a promising candidate situated well beyond Neptune ... dot in infrared images from both ...

The project is a scale replica of the solar system ... is at the USS Triton Sail in north Richland, and Uranus lies along a walking trail west of 14th Street in Benton City. Neptune has been ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

Its predicted haul includes another five million asteroids in the main belt, about 300,000 Jupiter Trojans, 40,000 objects beyond Neptune—and 10 to a hundred objects passing through our solar ...

Incredible new images of the sun's surface provide an unprecedented view of sunspots and other solar activity.