At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

While the discovery of the Kepler-9 planetary system is a major find, it is also a starting point for astronomers to learn how the planet arrangement formed in the first place. [Gallery ...

Planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, so the arrangement isn't anything ... and where to see it from the Hudson Valley. Planet parades are how astronomers and stargazers ...

That a system so far from our own has a similar arrangement — and perhaps similar origins — to the solar system, is exciting, Mazeh said. “Every new planet that is discovered lets us ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

After all, creative planet arrangements last much longer than radio messages, spacecraft carrying golden records, or giant orbiting platforms. “It is worth considering that any given ...

The team proposed that a young planet, or the makings of one, could be throwing off the gravitational balance of GW Ori's intricate triple-ring arrangement. If the detection is confirmed ...

The planet, informally dubbed 2M1510, traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs.

But in the past two years, with NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists have gotten a good look at the top and bottom of the planet for the first time. What they found astounded them: bizarre geometric ...