Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around two stars that orbit each other closely. That configuration should just be ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed planetary systems ever discovered. The TRAPPIST-1 system has captivated ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...