To reach Uranus is to journey into the absolute unknown. Situated in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, nearly 3 billion kilometers from the Sun, this Ice Giant is a world of paradoxes. It is ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

A strange strip of metal-rich gas in deep space is giving astronomers an unsettling glimpse of how worlds like ours might die ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped new images of the ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Could similar objects be the seeds of new planets around young ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In fact, its orbit is much more similar to that of its neighbors in the Kuiper Belt, a ...