Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

Stellar Winds of Three Sun-Like Stars Detected for the First ... development of turbulence as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar ...

Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world well outside our solar system ... 570 Earth-days. That star is estimated to be 64 percent the mass of the sun.

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Scientists discovered WASP-121b, an exoplanet where metals rain from the sky. Located 858 light-years away, this 'ultra-hot ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

“First it gets bigger, and as it does, it gets big enough that it starts to get into this teardrop shape … and then it pours about half a solar mass onto this other star.” One solar mass is ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

The idea of Dyson Sphere’s has been around for decades. When Freeman Dyson explored the concept he acknowledged that they may ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...