At the farthest edges of the solar system, strange objects follow paths that defy easy explanation. This story investigates ...

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

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific ...

Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges conventional theories of planet formation. The system likely includes a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

For decades, astronomers have suspected that a massive, unseen planet may be shaping the strange orbits of distant objects ...

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

Britons in the UK were not able to enjoy the 'Ring of Fire'. As for any eclipse, experts have urged people not to look at the phenomenon with the naked eye. According to experts, staring directly at ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...