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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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 ...