Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union ...

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A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets that orbit their star in a unique style, like an old-fashioned ...

In June, researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile noticed that this rogue planet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of a distant, frigid planet in a solar system unlike our own, astronomers announced on June 10. The ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...