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Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Washington, DC – Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune–called “Trojan” asteroids–have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial ...

Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar system. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 was not just the triumph of mathematics ...

New images released Wednesday from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light. "It has been three decades since we last saw these ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

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The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

After studying thousands of computer simulations of the solar system, researchers at Rice University and the Planetary Science Institute think there’s a 40% chance an elusive “Planet Nine” or “Planet ...

Astronomers with the International Astronomical Union have discovered three previously unknown moons at the farthest planets of our solar system — two circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The moons ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers are adding three newly discovered moons to our solar ...