Despite what you may believe, the brightest star in the night sky isn't the North Star, although it's probably the most ...

While on a writing retreat to Paris with his wife and longtime collaborator Chondra Echert, Sanchez penned two songs that ...

There is a common perception that science is a modern invention with roots in the ancient Greek world. While the Greeks ...

A planet twice the size of Jupiter has been confirmed in Nu Octantis. Its retrograde orbit and origin raise new questions about planetary formation in binary systems.

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

but the new definition of a planet requires the celestial body to have enough gravity to clear its orbital path from other bodies. MORE: Binary star system found near the Milky Way's black hole ...

Those 16 all orbit around the equatorial plane of their double star system — such orbits are said to be 'co-planar'. This is just one of the reasons that this new Tatooine-like planet ...

"It's a rare opportunity to place our own solar system in a broader galactic ... have detected the first planet seen orbiting a dead star, offering new insights into how planets evolve during ...

Indeed, other planets, dwarf planets and moons in our solar system do have seasonal cycles — and they can look wildly different from the ones we experience on Earth, experts told Live Science.

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in our solar system (after giving Pluto the old heave-ho and demoting it to a dwarf planet) and now researchers say they’ve found a ...

A new look through decades-old data has unveiled some of the most compelling evidence yet of a hidden ninth planet in the far reaches of our solar system, far beyond the bounds of Neptune and the ...