Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Imagine the solar system's planets throwing a Bollywood dance party. Each planet has its unique dance move. Mercury moves ...

The article envisions the solar system forming a cricket team with each planet embodying unique player characteristics. From ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...