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The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Have you ever noticed that rockets tend to launch from the east coast of the U.S.? There is actually a reason for that, and ...