An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

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

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 ...

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

I was born in 1955, at a time when the USA was entering a new age of technology characterized by the dawn of computing, and when we were first attempting to get a satellite into orbit. This was ...

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

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all in the evening sky, but you’ll need binoculars, timing, and a ...

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...