Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...
These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...
Far beyond Neptune lies a vast and unsettling frontier filled with dwarf planets, ancient ice worlds, collapsing atmospheres, ...
New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...
Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 because it shares its orbital path with other objects. Despite its demotion, this distant world continues to ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the galaxy. A newly found world has joined the growing catalogue of known ...