An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system ...

Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat. “The planets of the solar system have slight tilts up and down, but ...

Astronomers have launched a new program known as ATREIDES to study a mysterious "desert" in space. But unlike the deserts of the planet Arrakis conquered by Paul Atreides in the "Dune" novels by Frank ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have been a fragment of an icy ...

Lucas Brefka receives funding from a NASA Exoplanet Research Program grant. Christopher Palma does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...