"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising group of frozen bodies orbiting the Sun, far beyond the Kuiper Belt. Using the Subaru ...

A new study suggests that a microscopic black hole might pass through our solar system once every decade or so.

NASA has announced that a 510-foot asteroid, roughly the size of a building, will make close passes by Earth. Despite its ...

Jupiter's molten moon Io has been surveyed by a number of passing spacecraft, allowing planetary scientists to see changes on ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could ...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on ...