Researchers studied the data closely and suggested a few possible ideas about the planet’s atmosphere and surface.

Approximately 200,000 people applied for one-way flight Mars migration planAlthough it is exploring the possibility that human beings can live on planets other than the earth such as doing it, it is ...

Scientists have identified an object about 700km wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly elongated ...

Scott Wolk's research, presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting, focused on the X-ray emissions of Wolf 359, a red dwarf star approximately 8 light-years from Earth, to assess the ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system's known dwarf planets, ...

Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet, lost its planet status in 2006. Learn more about dwarf planets of the solar system here. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been granted a mission extension that will ...

We sought to test whether Gliese 229 B is a brown dwarf binary. To evade astronomers’ notice for 30 years, the two brown dwarfs would need to be located very close to each other, much closer than ...

We all know the end of the world will come eventually - but what exactly will this look like? In a new study, scientists have warned that Earth's demise could be even more violent and chaotic than we ...

Leading scientists have suggested that parts of our solar system will eventually meet their end as a result of a white dwarf star. As the Sun, our solar system’s only star, becomes increasingly ...