Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

There could be a ninth planet in our solar system that's lying in wait to be discovered - and no, it's not Pluto. Our solar ...

Dracula's Chivito is the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star, located at a distance of 1,000 ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — If you're trying to get a beautiful look at the planets in our solar system, you're in luck. Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be ...

Astronomers using planet-hunting satellites have discovered a rare solar system with six planets moving completely in sync with one another, as if they were untouched by any outside force since being ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

An astronomer has explained why all of the planets in our solar system are roughly sitting on the same orbital plane. According to Nader Haghighipour, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii who ...

Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of alchemy at the heart of the best sci-fi fantasy, celestial mechanics —- the numerical nuts and bolts of how planetary bodies move, orbit and ...