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Our solar system is made up of the sun, the eight known planets and the dozens of moons that circle those planets. But then there are innumerable asteroids, comets and dwarf planets wandering around.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest ...

Now, University of Vienna doctoral student Efrem Maconi thinks that our whole Solar System may have passed through this incredible structure. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there’s an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven’t been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another “Planet Nine” candidate — formerly ...

After the discovery of Neptune in 1846, astronomers kept searching for another solar system planet, which in the early 20th century became known as Planet X, a name popularized by astronomer Percival ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists believe that two asteroids might be ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...