The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Scientists created the Mars rover's newest self-portrait by stitching together 59 individual images taken by Perseverance 's ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

China’s space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.