Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The solar system suddenly has a new member. A new object ...

Astronomers have identified a small, frozen world orbiting far beyond Neptune whose strange path complicates one of the most ...

The Solar System may look orderly from a distance. Eight planets orbiting one star, ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

Earth isn't the only planet with extreme weather. From Venus' scorching heat to Neptune's extreme cold, here are the weirdest weather patterns in our solar system. Earth has one of the most ...