Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic ...

Vulcan flew twice in 2024 but the second mission had a rough ride to space. Those problems are the primary culprit behind ...

Meanwhile, the diameter of the disk is estimated to reach up to 500 AU. For context, the distance from the sun to the end of ...

During Thursday’s press conference, Putin reiterated the conditions Moscow would require for any peace agreement. These ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...

The Kuiper belt, a distant region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, is home to many celestial wonders. Among them, one particular trio of space rocks has recently caught the attention of scientists.