How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

What stage of a star’s life do planets start forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...