Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two exoplanets that couldn’t be more different. One is a rocky world that completes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of a planetary system with four planets, around a small red star, called LHS1903 with a large reddish-brown ...

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

This amazing spectacle is created by a special alignment of the planets' orbits.

What happens when a planet defies every expectation of how worlds are supposed to form and move? In the nu Octantis system, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a planet that orbits in the ...

— -- Goldilocks, like most fairy tales, offers children a lesson and a happy ending. Whether a Goldilocks planet offers astronomers something similar still hangs up in the air, with the story's ...

A new study has challenged a popular explanation for the unexpected 30-second shortening of Dimorphos's orbital period. The researchers found that the proposed mechanism would actually produce the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Our solar system is mostly ...

A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Astronomers have detected about 6,100 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, since the 1990s. All four in the newly observed system orbit closer to the star than our solar system’s ...