Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

Our grade school understanding of the Solar System may not take into account the constant discoveries being made in our ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...