WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

The maps also restrict the degree to which you ... these "tiger stripe" features on Enceladus' south pole. Ceres This dwarf planet is the largest object in the Asteroid Belt (though you've ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else — from the eight major planets to dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and icy objects ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...