Planet 9 may exist 42 billion miles away, influencing objects in the Kuiper Belt, and could be discovered with modern ...

The historic Lowell Observatory announced this week that it will drastically reduce internally funded research and shrink its ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed object to originate beyond our solar system, has become a focal point ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest objects in the outer Solar System, reflecting more than 70% of the sunlight ...

An international team of astronomers have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a nearby M-dwarf star known as TWA 20. As a result, they detected a large debris disk around this ...

The recent identification and reports of the comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked widespread interest among astronomers, space agencies and curious members of the public alike. Only the third ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is glowing brighter and defying all cometary science. Astronomers are baffled by its intense ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Here’s what Prof. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, has to say.