Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

TEMPE, Ariz. a Quick: What’s the order of the planets in the solar system? Need a little help? Maybe the following mnemonic rings a bell: “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas.” It’s ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the outermost reaches of our solar system. The discovery of 2020 VN40 a ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

Our solar system may be small in relation to the universe, but amazingly it's still yielding new discoveries. Scientists have discovered three new moons – two orbiting Neptune and one orbiting Uranus.

The worst part about being a werewolf (we suspect) is the loss of control. One day, you’re an ordinary person living out your life and the next day you’re an advice columnist living in the middle of ...

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Astronomers have found new evidence that a mysterious ninth planet may be hiding at the edge of the solar system - rewriting what we know about the cosmos again. An international team from Taiwan, ...