Two faint objects hiding in archival infrared sky maps now sit at the center of a growing scientific argument about whether a ...

The Solar System is not sitting still in a flat diagram; it is racing through the Milky Way in a vast three-dimensional ...

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Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

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Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this could reside in the planets in our solar system, say researchers at the ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Ianm35/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else we ...