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

The stars may not align, but the planets will. Stargazers are in for a treat later this month when six planets form a line during a rare event scientists are dubbing a “planetary parade.” The ...

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.

Mark your calendars for the last week of February, because one of the coolest celestial events is coming up where six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time. This phenomenon, known ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — This week will bring a celestial parade, full planetary alignment. The alignment will involve Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune appearing in an arcing line from ...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporized by stellar heat, trailed by a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. A yellowish-orange glow bathes Phainoterra, a planet of dramatic ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

NORFOLK, Va. — Each planet in our solar system takes a different amount of time to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

In Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker burned alive on the shores of a roiling lava planet called Mustafar, fueling his tumultuous transition into Darth Vader. Now, astronomers have found an atmosphere on a ...