Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned to the famed ringed world of Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the ...

The Oort cloud reaches out approximately 1/4th the way to the nearest star. Even identifying objects from the innermost regions is an exciting find all by itself, let alone when they're likely to be ...

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A team of astronomers at the National Observatory in Brazil have found a pair of rings around an asteroid orbiting between Saturn and Uranus named Chariklo. While not as dazzling as Saturn’s rings, it ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now, the shape ...