An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars. NEW YORK (AP) — A ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Exoplanet hunters have found strange worlds unlike anything we see in the solar system, including worlds ... a world that weirdly orbits its stars at a 90-degree angle. However, while we've ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

one of the researchers who first suggested that a big planet could be the culprit that was messing with the orbits of some small solar system bodies. "Vera Rubin is our best bet to find it in the ...