According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet that may lurk in the far ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

As experts turn their gaze to the sky, the likelihood of new discoveries increases exponentially. In a new paper published in the journal Earth, a group of scientists may have come ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

“When compared to our solar system, each of the four planets are inside the distance of Mercury’s orbit,” Basant said. The planets closely orbit Barnard’s Star, zipping around their ...