The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Inside the Dwarf 3, you'll find a Sony IMX678 Starvis 2 sensor, which specializes in low-light imagery, though its daytime ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...