A new study suggests Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, challenging the idea that ...

This educational timelapse simulation visualizes the unique length and visual appearance of a full day across every planet ...

Spread the loveImagine everything you thought you knew about where our planet came from, about the very building blocks of the ground beneath your feet and the water you drink, suddenly being turned ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of them, many of which are members of a planetary system, like the well-known ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a ...

What new methods can be used to find long-period exoplanets, or exoplanets with orbits lasting from months to decades? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

The black star represents the position of the star. The colored lines are the orbits of two planets. The yellow one is the outer, and it is highly inclined. The inner one is the red one. As time ...

Artist’s conception of the K2-360 system, showing the ultra-dense super-Earth K2-360 b (red) in its extremely close orbit around its Sun-like star, with the more distant companion K2-360 c (blue) in ...