A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

A recent study introduces the idea of Planet Y, a theoretical world that could explain strange gravitational behavior beyond ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists propose a new model for the formation of compact exoplanetary systems that contain multiple rocky planets in tight orbits around their star. In this model, ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...

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 ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn’t have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in the universe. But, ...

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created just a ...

For the inner four planets in this solar system, each planet orbits the sun three times for every two orbits of the planet immediately to its outside. For the fourth, fifth and sixth planets, they ...

Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep space, billions of years ago. According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet ...

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...