A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

Scientists have found a planet outside of the solar system, which was in the formation phase, by using the Very Large ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

Pluto was once known as the ninth planet but was reclassified after scientists set clear criteria for planets. The key factor was Pluto’s inability to clear its orbital path, leading to its current ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on ...

According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

The dwarf planet Eris orbits the sun in the inner Oort Cloud, at a distance that ranges from 37 to 97 AU. The dwarf planet Sedna, discovered in 2003, has an incredibly eccentric orbit, such that ...

Just on the outskirts of our solar system exists the dwarf planet Quaoar, and recent observations of the planet found a dense ring around it, but scientists can't figure how – or why – it's ...

It's time to have a talk about dwarf planets. Everyone's always acting like Pluto's demotion is a horrible thing, and now we find out that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 is the largest unnamed object ...

The Jupiter-size planet orbits a type of star called a white dwarf, and hints at what our solar system could be like when the sun burns out. By Becky Ferreira When our sun enters its death throes ...