The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

A new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, has been found with a vast orbit and potential dwarf planet size. The finding hints ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an ...

Such synchrony may occur when planets first form, but astronomers theorize that as time goes on, its likely for orbits to get knocked out of rhythm.

Billions of galaxies are in the universe, with billions of stars in every galaxy. Could billions of planets be out there too?

An astronomer at the University of Arizona is excited about the potential for life on a possible planet in the nearest solar ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming ...

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) caught one of these protoplanetary disks and its young star in a edge-on view ...