In a surprising cosmic revelation, Uranus is found to be engaged in a unique orbital dance with a Centaur named 2015 OU₁₉₄.

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

A new analysis of decades' worth of observations has revealed that Uranus does indeed emit more heat than it receives from ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

Astronomical discovery: supersonic gales of 20,500 mph batter the exoplanet WASP-127b, breaking cosmic records for ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

In short, while Saturn is less dense than Earth and could float on water if it had a rigid surface keeping it together, in reality, the planet would be pulled apart as it sank into the water world, ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a ...

Astronomers have discovered that a distant giant planet, known as TOI-2109b, is in a dramatic death spiral, slowly falling toward its star in a fiery end that could help unlock secrets about how ...