When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

Our solar system is way more bizarre and dynamic than what our school textbooks taught us. From Venus being super hot to ...

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created ...

A molten planet is a planetary object; a surface or deep interior of which is mostly or wholly in a liquid-rock (magma) form ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...