Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

Have you ever wondered how long it would take to travel to each of the planets in our solar system? The distances between ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Every object orbiting a single mass (like our Sun) makes an ellipse, containing a point of closest approach that's unique to that particular orbit, known as periapsis. For the past 4.5 billion years ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s ...

The Sun's outer layers will swell to more than 100 times their present diameter, but the exact details of its evolution, and how those changes will affect the orbits of the planets, still have ...