Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

Using a telescope at the top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system, a body about 435 miles across that lacks a name and that researchers still ...

Most large solar system lay within a few degrees of the ecliptic, and even Sedna's orbit is only inclined about 12 degrees from it. The chances of a super-Earth with such a highly inclined orbit ...