A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually difficult to spot.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

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Jupiter, king of our solar system’s planets, continues to dominate the night sky in February. Lying inside the zodiac ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...

The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Beyond the planets’ neat orbits lies a hidden vertical structure of our solar system. From the icy trillions of the Oort ...

IS this what the end of days looks like after the Sun has swallowed Earth up? Fear not, we’ve got some time to go – ...