Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Mercury, which is closest to the sun ... alignment is simply an optical illusion: the planets are still separated by millions ...

ANOTHER, even rarer, ‘planet parade’ is set to grace skies very soon. For one night only, all seven other planets in the ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life. The planet is outside our solar ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new super-Earth with an ‘eccentric’ orbit that swings it in-and-out of its star’s habitable zone ...

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life.

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...