"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

In a groundbreaking discoverypublished in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As a result, ...

Astronomers just found a distant space rock called 2020 VN40, orbiting the Sun way out past Neptune. This icy object takes about 164 years to make one lap around the Sun—talk about a long trip! The ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Our solar system has a mysterious new object! Trans-Neptunian body takes nearly 300 years to travel around the sun - and could help in the search for Planet Nine, astronomers say.

The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, also known as Ultima Thule, which NASA's space probe New Horizons passed on New Year's Day 2019, may have changed its shape significantly in the first 100 ...