For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary family. I’m not talking about reviving Pluto’s status, but about a potential ...

The mystery of extraterrestrial oceans may find its solution at the very heart of forming planets. An international research team has just experimentally demonstrated how water could emerge ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of formation around a young ...

Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...