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

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, a pair of telescopes has revealed multiple rocky worlds around it

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close grouping of five planets that year "caused near panic among the citizens of Europe after an 'authority' predicted that world-wide disasters would result."

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Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their atmospheres over time, according to new findings using NASA’s TESS data. Resea

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

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

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several ...

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