Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—will be visible to the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune, being much farther away, will ...

The curious minds at What If predict the effects if Planet X entered our solar system, revealing orbital chaos, climate changes, and planetary disruption.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

At the farthest edges of the solar system, strange objects follow paths that defy easy explanation. This story investigates ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS.

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

Astronomers say a newly discovered solar system about 116 light years from Earth is challenging long held ideas about how planets form.According to CNN, researchers using telescopes from NASA ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...