Wolf 359, a red dwarf star just 7.8 light-years away, could host planets, but extreme X-ray and ultraviolet radiation make ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby ...

Explore the planets with NASA There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris, according to NASA. What happened to Pluto?

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all ...

We float through space revolving around the Sun along with seven other planets and five dwarf planets—including Pluto, which was demoted from its planetary status in 2006. Sometimes, we look up ...

It did have five known moons: Charon ... Union General Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of three newly defined ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

In five years time, Hubble or the James Webb Space ... in the same orbital plane around the Andromeda galaxy and form the ...

Kepler-62 currently hosts five known exoplanets ... “On the other hand, the planet orbiting the white dwarf is rotating so fast that it never has time to build up nearly as much cloud cover on its ...