Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...
At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...
In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have unearthed a six-planet system orbiting the star HD 110067, where the celestial bodies are locked in a rare resonance chain that resembles a perfect cosmic ...
Astronomers studying the distant reaches of our Solar System have identified an unusual trans-Neptunian object (TNO) locked in a rare orbital configuration with Neptune. The object, discovered through ...