University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down. In the Solar System, ...

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...

Astronomers found a strange planetary system 116 light-years away. It orbits a red dwarf star called LHS 1903. The planets are arranged in an unexpected order. The outermost planet is rocky, which ...

Discover the Kuiper Belt: a frozen ring of dwarf planets and trillions of icy bodies, currently being explored by NASA's New Horizons mission.

A global team of astronomers, in a project conceived at and co-led by the University of St Andrews, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope ...

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

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Scientists used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Firefighters and wildlife experts in Brevard County rescued a manatee trapped in a storm drain on Monday after the animal apparently ...

The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire” by Julian Sancton tells the story of the history of ...