But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

The event, titled "Out of This World," will feature the Massapequa Philharmonic performing composer Gustav Holst's masterwork ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

For years, scientists have been scanning the icy outskirts of our Solar System for an unknown massive planet. The ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...