But our own Solar System's disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv) , 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...

These objects range from microscopic in size to well over 100 yards in diameter — a far more significant presence than the ...

Object CWISE J1249 is a bit of a mystery; all we know is that it has some unique properties and it's moving really fast. Like, really fast.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

Venera 8, a Soviet probe for a set of Venus missions, was Cosmos 482's sibling spacecraft. NASA. The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are ...

The Oort cloud is a gigantic spherical shell of debris surrounding our Solar System, the most distant objects that the Sun can keep in its gravity well. Every star should have one.

37,000 trans-Neptunian objects, residents of the distant Kuiper Belt — nearly 10 times the current census — shedding light on Neptune’s past migration and the outer solar system’s history.