Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to follow the rules. Around Neptune in particular, a handful of newly charted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts exoplanet WD 1856 b in orbit around a dead white dwarf star. - NASA/ESA/CSA/R. Crawford (STScI) New ...

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the edge of our solar system. So many unexplored secrets still lie at the ...

Washington, May 19 (PTI) Scientists have discovered a new moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, that resides in the frigid outskirts in our solar system. With this discovery, most of the known ...

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways to identify them. But while astronomers have searched for exomoons ...

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Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...