Before Uranus’ Discovery, Saturn Was the Farthest Known Planet For millennia, Saturn was the farthest planet from the Sun that had been identified. The earliest known record of Saturn is from ...

A newly found object may set a new record for the most distant dwarf planet in the solar system. The object, called V774104, lies about nine and a half billion miles from the sun, or two to three ...

Artist's concept of the newly discovered object 2018 VG18, nicknamed Farout, which researchers think is likely a pinkish dwarf planet. At 120 AU, the object is the farthest body ever found in the ...

The new dwarf is one of the farthest ever discovered and could help in the search for the mysterious Planet Nine.

Moment of Science: 20,000+ mph winds discovered on exoplanet “A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” -Catherine the Great ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system that is nearly four times farther from the sun than Pluto, making it the farthest known object in ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be chemically active.

Distant star's planet discovered via artificial intelligence The discovery of a planet orbiting a distant star means there is another solar system a lot like ours.

In the short quarter of a century since the first exoplanets were discovered, astronomers have identified roughly 3,500 of these planets that orbit stars outside of Earth's solar system. With new ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, MA, announced today they have detected the most distant extrasolar planet (OGLE-TR-56b) ever found in the ...

Say hello to planetoid "Farfarout," the most distant object ever observed in our solar system "I think what this discovery shows is that we are seeing the tip of the iceberg," one astronomer tells ...