Scientists have been on the hunt for a possible ninth planet in our solar system for some time ... Unusual gravitational ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.

When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...

This showed him the planet was in fact in orbit around the Sun ... they are found further out in our solar system.” Given this distance and their pattern of movement, it’s easy to see how ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, eventually settling into an orbit between Earth and Mars. The team analyzed ...