The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have confirmed. However, the boundaries of celestial definitions are continually ...

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Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Scientists have recently spotted a huge object far away in the cold outer reaches of our solar system. This 700-kilometer-wide object could be a new dwarf planet. It was discovered traveling a ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...