The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

MIT astronomers estimate a planet 140 light-years from Earth may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.

But then scientists at the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn’t quite make the cut, it lacked the ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...