Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

Space fans have the chance to see a rare celestial spectacle on one day this month as six planets appear visible in the night ...

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

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form.

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Wausau Pilot & Review The night sky this week rewards patience, darkness and careful timing. A rare stretch of moonless ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations -- and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

"This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system," study lead author Thomas Wilson, physics professor from the University of Warwick, said in a statement. "Rocky planets don't usually form ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...