Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...