The discovery of a rogue planet with a disk around it indicates the presence of "mini planets" or moons. Study co-author Aleks Scholz, an astrophysicist at Scotland's University of St. Andrews ...

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

Through decades of intensive search activity, astronomers found four mini-planets orbiting the closest solitary star system to Earth. The astronomical discovery represents a groundbreaking scientific ...

but that doesn’t mean that other natural objects couldn’t also get snagged by our planet’s gravity, and researchers think they might have just spotted a “mini moon” orbiting our planet.

the solar system would have resembled a mini-version of the PDS 70 system. Astronomers at the University of Arizona imaged the extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," using the sophisticated Magellan ...

Scientists say they have spotted a dust devil "eating" another on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the ...

that further support the notion that this planet is more like a super-Venus rather than a mini-Neptune. This finding defies current assumptions and brings new possibilities to the classification ...