All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

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

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

may have significantly altered the orbits of the four outer planets in our solar system. This encounter, occurring billions of years ago, could explain the slight deviations from ideal circular ...

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

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes wreak havoc on Earth, but scientists have now detected planetary winds on an entirely different scale, far outside the Solar ... planets of our own System ...

The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun.

If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot's Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself ...

Despite common assumptions, the disk of our Solar System is warped, and the planets travel around the ... and that the interloping object’s closest approach to the Sun must have been less ...

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