An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower masses, they're more likely to either get flung out of the system or pulled ...