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A giant icy world hiding beyond Pluto could be our sixth dwarf planet
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Astronomers have uncovered a potentially enormous new dwarf planet beyond Pluto, hidden for years in one of the most crowded regions of the night sky. The discovery of 2026 ED138 could expand the solar system's official dwarf planet family and hints that more mysterious worlds ma
Astronomers have uncovered a potentially enormous new dwarf planet beyond Pluto, hidden for years in one of the most crowded regions of the night sky. The discovery of 2026 ED138 could expand the solar system's official dwarf planet family and hints that more mysterious worlds may be lurking far beyond Neptune.
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A dead star's mysterious rings reveal what could happen when our Sun dies
Astronomers have discovered a strange double ring of planetary wreckage around a dead star, revealing a possible preview of our Solar System's distant future. The two rings are separated by a mysterious gap that researchers believe is maintained by surviving planetary bodies, inc
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Cryosphere decline beyond safe planetary limits, putting conditions for human society at risk
New research published at COP31 issues a stark warning about the health of the frozen parts of the planet—ice sheets, mountain glaciers, sea ice, permafrost and snow cover—known as the cryosphere. The study, published in Science, finds that human-driven climate change is degradin
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Space dust particles point to ancient heavy-oxygen water reservoir in the Kuiper belt
Way out past the asteroid belt, another belt encircles the planets in our solar system. The Kuiper belt, beyond Neptune, preserves icy bodies that escaped much of the processing experienced by objects closer to the sun. Unlike the rocky and metallic asteroid belt, Kuiper belt obj
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Astronomers discover hidden alien planet in James Webb images
A breakthrough in telescope imaging could reveal countless alien worlds that have been hiding in plain sight. Scientists developed a new technique that uses a digital twin of the James Webb Space Telescope to remove the overwhelming glare of stars, making faint exoplanets two to
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Dust-shrouded Milky Way star cluster may be nearly as old as the universe
Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known star clusters in our galaxy. The cluster lies behind thick clouds of interstellar dust, which made its di
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