The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s detection of a possible dwarf planet is just the start of many more discoveries in our cosmic ...

With 8,291 TNOs in JPL’s catalog, recent discoveries and new telescope technology are revealing more of the solar system’s ...

The outer solar system will descend into chaos just a few billion years after the sun exhausts its fuel ‪—‬ much sooner than ...

A large object in the Kuiper Belt — a distant region of icy and rocky bodies past Neptune — appears to be a new candidate ...

The object, known for now as 2026 ED138, is one of the first discoveries by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found what might be a new dwarf planet in our solar system, orbiting the sun on an inclined ...

Astronomers have identified a distant object beyond Neptune, and it could classify as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

ED138, a newly discovered dwarf planet candidate, could join a group of only five other recognized objects that includes our ...

Learn more about the unique ice grains from comet 3I/ATLAS and how they may hold clues to the building blocks of planets.

On planet Earth, our 'secondary atmosphere' has been with us for billions of years and its chemical balance reflects the ...

A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from ...