Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues — Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen — are once again redefining our solar system’s edge. They ...

This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed Farfarout might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva Astronomers have confirmed the orbit of ...

In a headline straight out of Hitchhiker’s Guide, astronomers say they’ve confirmed that a mysterious object observed in 2018, dubbed “Farfarout,” is indeed the farthest known object orbiting the Sun.

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was named A11pl3Z. Now, it's ...

There may be more than meets the eye with The Kuiper Belt, a ring comprising thousands of large, icy objects and dwarf planets that encircle our solar system. A yet-to-be-published study, spotlighted ...

A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system came from. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb and student researcher Shokhruz ...

The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as ...

The two stories (here) and (here) are set to be published in the Planetary Science Journal and detail evidence for a cluster of objects just outside of the Kuiper Belt, which is approximately 40 to 50 ...

A bright comet with large dust and gas trails as the comets orbit brings it close to the Sun. Illustration. The much-heralded Vera Rubin Observatory —- due to come online early next year in northern ...