A group of astronomers has found a solar system 116 light-years from Earth that seems to challenge current theories about how ...
A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...
On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—will be visible to the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune, being much farther away, will ...
On February 23, 1990, NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! This was the second spacecraft to travel beyond the ...
Astronomers using planet-hunting satellites have discovered a rare solar system with six planets moving completely in sync with one another, as if they were untouched by any outside force since being ...