A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

This weekend, six planets are set to share the sky in a rare “planet parade,” giving stargazers a short but magical window to ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...

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A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the ...

Enceladus, one of Saturn’s smallest moons, has long fascinated scientists with its icy surface and mysterious geysers.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to the host star, and gas planets toward the exterior. That’s how planets are ...

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