Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Astronomers Amazed to Identify ‘Cosmic Triplets’ Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Neptune For decades, astronomers have mopped ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Despite not having launched anything in more than five months, United Launch Alliance still expects to fly around 12 missions ...

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

According to the research team trying to unravel the mysterious blazar, jets of ionized matter ejected from near the poles of ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic ...