There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

Growing up, I was taught that there were nine planets in the solar system. That all changed in 2006, when the International ...

The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of dwarf planet ... For comparison, Earth orbits 1 AU (93 million ...

Known as Wolf 1069 b, the planet orbits a red dwarf star called Wolf 1069 ... and cooler than our Sun yet account for about 70% of all stars known in the Milky Way. CARMENES uses the radial ...

The dwarf planet, which orbits the sun beyond Neptune, has since been referred to as (225088) 2007 OR10. Now the scientists who discovered it are asking the public to help pick a catchier name.

The planet, called Barnard’s b, orbits Barnard’s star ... Barnard’s star is a red dwarf star, a low-mass, cool star that comprises about 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way.

The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects together ... which are too small to be considered planets. The best known of these is Pluto, an ice dwarf that orbits far from the Sun, beyond ...