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 ...

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

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 ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Astronomer Sam Lawler from Regina was looking for new Kuiper belt objects when she accidentally stumbled upon Saturn and some of its moons in her way.

During Thursday’s press conference, Putin reiterated the conditions Moscow would require for any peace agreement. These ...