Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar system – has always been something of a ... presented ...

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

This project marks the longest single-target ... our chances of finding regular communications among planets beyond our solar system, if they exist.” The team did not find any alien signals ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Planet Hunters NGTS was set up in 2021 in the hope of uncovering new exoplanets by engaging volunteers to examine data from the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescopes in Chile.

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will enable scientists to detect the faint light ...

“The methods and algorithms that we developed for this project can eventually ... of finding regular communications among planets beyond our solar system, if they exist,” said Nick Tusay ...

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during the eclipse. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll see them all. Contrary to what you might have read ...