Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic planet formation.

Researchers found Earth's orbital changes align with past volcanic eruptions. Climate shifts and massive eruptions occurred ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

The planets orbit the sun continuously in the solar system, so at times, they slowly catch up to one another. Because they travel along the same path, or ecliptic, as they pass Earth ...

Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

That path is called the ecliptic, and it exists because all planets in our solar system orbit around the sun on roughly the same plane. Astronomers, on the other hand, look for more specific ...

All the planets orbit roughly along the same plane ... The planets “are always more or less on the same path, and occasionally a few more of them are visible in the night sky,” Krupp said.

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The JWST has spotted the presence of carbon dioxide on HR 8799’s four known planets, part of a system astronomers use to ...