There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When it comes to science, a simple observation can upend everything you think you know, such is the case with one star ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Siraj’s Planet Y search started about a year ago when he was trying to find out whether the shape of the Kuiper Belt is flat. “The planets of the solar system have slight tilts up and down, but ...

A recent study by Princeton University astronomers suggests the possible existence of a previously undetected planet in our ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

Astronomers are tracking strange orbital patterns in the outer Solar System that suggest a massive unseen planet may exist ...

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