Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

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It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional ...

Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

A recent study by Princeton University astronomers suggests the possible existence of a previously undetected planet in our ...

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the ...

Elon Musk’s satellite network is expected to balloon in size over the next decade. Should we be concerned? (Hint: Many experts already are.) ...

It was SpaceX's third Project Kuiper launch and the sixth overall dedicated to building out the nascent network, which will ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket left Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 9:58 p.m. ET on Monday. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The United Launch Alliance launched its Atlas V rocket as it carried Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites from Space Launch Complex-31 on Monday night. The Atlas V ...