The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus. A new computer model, designed by researchers at ...

A new paper discusses the possible existence of an unseen planet in the outer solar system, the so-called "Planet X" or ...

The researchers said they had no reason to believe the three-planet model of the Kepler-51 system was inaccurate, and they successfully used the model to predict the transit time of Kepler-51b in May ...

Astronomers have discovered a system in which the disk is warped, providing a clear view of a three-million-year-old planet with a one-week orbit. A model for the formation of our Solar System ...

From determining the atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets to measuring the planetary orbit's alignment with the stellar spin, students will discover what these measurements imply for ...

I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called "Placet is a Crazy Place" by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown. In Brown's story, Placet is a planet ...

How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a ...