Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

The system, observed using the European Space Agency's Cheops space telescope, consists of four planets — two rocky and two ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the cosmic chaos if Venus and Mars suddenly swapped orbits, revealing the dramatic effects on climate, gravity, and planetary ecosystems.

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

For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Earth's surface. These ...

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

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