Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

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

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation theories.

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic planet formation.

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...