"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

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

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

"Contrary to popular conception, everything in the solar ... the solar system, and it simplifies the relativistic equations." ...

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

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial ...

Fireballs are common during the Lyrids due to the exceptional speed that comet Thatcher debris travels at in the stream. Hitting the top of Earth's atmosphere at around 100,000 km/hr, anything bigger ...