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For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

From Mars & Regulus to Saturn near the Moon and Venus at dawn, the night sky dazzles June 13-19, 2025. Spot deep-sky gems and the Milky Way’s glow—perfect for skywatchers everywhere!

A solar mission shared between the European Space Agency and NASA has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole.

The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Watch out this month for a Full Moon that barely skims the horizon, a phenomenon that inspired prehistoric astronomers, Nigel ...

it remained in a high elliptical orbit of the Earth, gradually approaching the planet," Roscosmos said in the post. The spacecraft was one of several launched with a goal of studying Venus under ...

The craft circled the Earth in an ever-smaller and irregular pattern until ... of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by ...

On April 24, Venus and Saturn will collide in a powerful conjunction in the dreamy and romantic sign of Pisces. It's a time to commit to relationships that are stable and serious, but also a moment to ...