Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

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Researchers from Warwick and other universities examined Neptunian exoplanets – these planets share similar characteristics to our own Neptune, but orbit outside of our solar system. Scientists ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

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Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo observed similar anomalies in trans-Neptunian object orbits, suggesting that ...

Before we get into the technical details of the mission, though, let's dive into why scientists should care about the Neptunian system in the first place. The last time we visited Neptune was with ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

so it’s not so crazy to have another planet within the same system.” The most promising path forward, she added, is actually finding more of the trans-Neptunian objects that Batygin is basing ...