In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Voyager 1 will achieve an incredible feat, traveling farther than any spacecraft before it. After almost 50 years, this historic moment marks a major milestone in space exploration.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday.

"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." ...

Scientists had long thought the Oort Cloud was shaped like a sphere or flattened shell, warped by the push and pull of other planets and the Milky Way itself. The planetarium show hinted that a ...