Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

Researchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

The possibility that black holes may be lurking within the solar system is a tantalizing prospect for astrophysicists. Recent ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...

"State-of-the-art simulations of the solar system include more than a million objects, each of which has a tiny residual effect," study co-author, Benjamin Lehmann, a researcher at MIT, said in ...

The Subaru Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft collaboration has hinted at a new population of distant Kuiper Belt objects, ...

The outer Solar System has been a treasure trove of discoveries in recent decades. Using ground-based telescopes, astronomers ...