All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Our planet is just the right distance from the ... Our Sun is just one of many billions of stars in our galaxy, which is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. And despite ... stars are often accompanied by planets, this discovery also raises ...

Stars that currently live in the galaxy’s thick disk were born ... but he thinks the conclusion holds for larger planets, too. “If our theory is correct, and these disks really didn’t ...

The planets are gearing up for an even rarer planetary ... Stargazers will have the chance to see the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour 2.5million light-years away, in all its ...