Planetary alignments have always been a fascinating subject, both for scientists and astrology enthusiasts alike. The idea ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Because of the way the planet orbits — almost entirely tipped over onto its side — its auroras aren’t over its north and south poles like they are on other planets. In researching the ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

A new study has revealed the structure of extreme winds on WASP-121b, a gas giant located 1,300 light-years away. This ...