A new type of exoplanet has been discovered ... and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in 2009, has piqued ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

the day Planet X is discovered could be a tad anticlimactic. As Dr Bloomer put it: ‘Directly discovering a “Planet Nine” in our solar system might start with an astronomer noticing (or being ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

An artist’s impression of the two new planets discovered. An inner super-Earth, here seen transiting in front of the orange host-star and an icy giant planet on the periphery of the system.

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found ... our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.