then it could disprove the notion that there is a ninth planet lurking out in the darkness of our Solar System beyong Neptune. But should the orbits of the new objects follow the trend ...

upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite ... astrophysics has long been to figure out how the orbits later became out-of-round ...

These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative ... in the earliest days of our cosmic neighborhood.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ... because we have nothing directly analogous to them here in our Solar ...

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets ... as it will seem to block out more of the star's light, or they might infer the planet is hotter than it ...

People will be able to see a rare sight at the end of this month when all seven other planets in our solar system line up in the night sky. For the last few weeks six of the planets have been ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

improving our understanding of planet formation and potentially shedding light on the origins of our own Solar System," says David Cont from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany ...