'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat plane? This fascinating phenomenon isn’t a coincidence but a direct result of how our solar system ...

A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under ...

Have you ever wondered how long it takes for each planet to orbit the Sun? From Mercury’s blazing 88-day year to Neptune’s astonishing 165-year journey, every planet moves at a completely different ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is ...

From changes in solar activity to shifts in climate and atmosphere, the study of Earth’s future often reveals as much about ...