New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University ...

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered how to find the planets that are twinkling above? Whether you're a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has provided groundbreaking insights into the potential of giant, free-floating planets forming their own miniature planetary systems. These objects, ...

The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of This Month. Here's How to See the Planets Line Up You can catch Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in the sky at the same time.

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...