Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The planets are so small that they are more analogous to Mars, according to Basant. “When compared to our solar system, each ...

DMK MP Kanimozhi accused Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of misrepresenting Tamil Nadu's stance on PM-SHRI schools, clarifying they never agreed to the three-language policy or NEP fully.

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1 ...

The solar system is a region of space, and all of the objects contained within which are gravitationally bound to the sun. This means all the planets and moons, all of the asteroids and comets ...

Shortly after the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 and three of its planets was first announced in May 2016, scientists started to figure out a way to turn Kepler toward the system for observation.

“The Arctic is the air-conditioner cooling system for the entire planet and it’s breaking down ... There’s a life-size cutout of Nanook in his sealskin pants hurling a harpoon that village youths are ...

That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun. Keep reading to learn more about Earth's different layers, its atmosphere, and what makes the "blue planet" unique.