A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

In 1.2 million years, the orange dwarf Gleisa 710 will pass through the outer reaches of our solar system, becoming a brilliant point in the night sky while nudging the distant Oort Cloud. Though ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

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Free admission to world class science exhibits might sound too good to be true, but Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta makes it a reality. Located at 156 Heaton Park Drive NE, this educational ...

Wednesday is "Pluto Day," because – yes, of course there is a day for that. And, while celebrating the celestial object that ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet parade — mistakenly called a planetary alignment by ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...