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

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

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

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

Astronomers recorded extreme winds of 33,000 kph on exoplanet WASP-127b, a 'hot Jupiter' with low density orbiting close to its star. Advanced atmosph ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

a star-size object visited the solar system and tweaked these planets' paths. The team carried out 50,000 simulations of such events, using computer models of the four outer planets, each over 20 ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be ... because we have nothing directly analogous to them here in our Solar System. Both ...

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