Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

A team of astronomers led from St. Andrews and Manchester universities today (6 July) announced the discovery of a ring of rocks circling a very young star. This is the first time these ‘pebbles,’ ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

However, a free-floating (or “rogue”) planet offers none of that. It drifts through a galaxy without an obvious host star, ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

A visible line of planets has for weeks been the talk of astronomers and hobbyist stargazers who have sought to catch a sight of our solar system's worlds. Online chatter and a frenzy of media ...

The comparison of near-IR dust scattered light (SPHERE IRDIS J-band imaging polarimeter; Thalmann et al. 2016) and ALMA millimeter dust rings (the three gray ellipses) in the LkCa 15 disk. The inner ...

Stargazers in California and worldwide will be treated to a planet parade in February when Earth's seven sister planets align. You'll need high-powered binoculars or a telescope to see Neptune and ...

Thanks to Neal.Fun’s creation, you can have the solar system in the palm of your hand. However, you’ll first need to make a Planet in order to build this in Infinite Craft, and we’re here to explain ...