The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Until now, it has been assumed that Vesta is a protoplanet and has a core. This is contradicted by measurement data that ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

Scientists believe that they've discovered a new planet which may be part of the Earth's solar system. Thanks to advancing ...

Astronomers recently used a combination of space telescope observations and computer models to learn more about the ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...