Astronomers have long wondered why planets orbiting two stars like the iconic Tatooine in Star Wars are so rare. You would ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

SHOCKED astronomers have spotted a “rogue” planet that defies historic theories. A unique “inside out” planetary system with a distant rocky world turns our ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

According to these calculations, Earth's total lifespan will be about 9.5 billion years.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

FROM satellites turned into missiles and worldwide blackouts sparking carnage on the streets, all-out war in space is becoming less of a distant sci-fi dream. For centuries, wars have been fought ...

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...