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

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

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been a source ... The lunar orbit was practically in the plane of the equator; the initial eccentricity is uncertain, as it depends ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...

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

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory. It was created by astronomers Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm to help ...