The model can easily be used to, for example, place constraints on transit timing while performing circumbinary planet searches on large data sets. It is adaptable to use in situations where some or ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars -- 200 light-years from Earth. Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short life of what was, for a single human lifetime, the solar system's ...

With family wealth to back him, he founded an observatory in the western dark-sky desert of the U.S. and hoped to unlock the mystery of the Red Planet. He soon became fascinated by another cosmic ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...

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Online chatter and a frenzy of media coverage has tended to make a big deal of allegedly rare "planetary alignments" and "planet parades" gracing our night skies. The hoopla has culminated this ...

On Feb. 28, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time in a decade Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Calling all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts ...

What is Planet Position in Astrology? Planet position is a diagrammatic representation of the condition and positions of the celestial bodies at any given time for any given location on Earth. Planet ...