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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an ...

Virgo Moons are good at analyzing and understanding their emotions. They're particularly compatible with Cancer Moons, Gemini ...

The week ahead is forcing us to leave the past behind, even though it rears its head into the present. Venus in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus on February 8, pushing us to break out of unhealthy ...

The candidate planet, named, HD 137010 b, is nearly the exact same size as the Earth and has a similar orbital period as our home, with its year lasting 355 days. The candidate is also a similar ...