For a long time, children learning about space in school were taught that there were nine planets in our solar system. Then, ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Detecting such a young planet is exceptionally rare, as they are often hidden by swirling debris disks around their host suns ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...