"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

According to Princeton researchers, the classical belt's structure should be understood as consisting of three major ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life, the presence of water is a key signature of possible habitability. Identifying why ...