NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Neptune’s Moon May Have Survived Ancient Cataclysmic Event
NEED TO KNOW Neptune’s moon Nereid may be the lone survivor of an ancient cataclysmic event, scientists have…
A World Beyond Neptune Has An Atmosphere And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Artist’s conception of this research showing an imagined time sequence as a star passes behind a TNO with…
Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests
The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28,…
Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
A Mysterious Warp at the Edge of the Solar System May Point to the Existence of a Hidden “Planet Y”
A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system…
Scientists think they found evidence of a hidden planet beyond Neptune and they are calling it Planet Y
The Kuiper Belt is home to rocky, icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.…
Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here’s What We Know
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn’t by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by…
New mystery “planet” on the horizon? Here’s why planet ‘Y’ could be warping our Solar System
Why planet Y maybe the new mystery planet–Representative Image Ever since the first explorers charted the outer reaches…
Where Newly Found ‘Ammonite’ Is In Solar System — And Why It Matters
2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” is a trans-Neptunian object that could reshape what we know about … More the…