Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

By day, Chris Boone leads the USC Price School of Public Policy as dean. By night, he captures the wonders of the cosmos ...

I am an astronomer and astrobiologist who studies planets around ... version of our solar system’s ice giant Neptune, called a mini-Neptune, or perhaps a rocky planet with no water but a massive ...