we have discovered many planets in orbit around certain stars. Trappist-1, a red dwarf star located 40 light-years from Earth ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through to February.

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

The team carried out 50,000 simulations of such events, using computer models of the four outer planets, each over ... past Uranus' orbit and some even grazed Mercury's path and they ranged ...

including Earth which goes around in an elliptical orbit. A new research is now looking at what really caused this change in the orbital path of planets. A close encounter with a massive ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A new study in astrophysics has found why some planets’ paths have certain peculiar features. The formation of the solar ...

We have discovered thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, while the number of planets ... Neptune's orbit. In a recent paper, the team looked at long-period objects that crossed the path ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...