Astronomers have identified a vast, cotton-candy–light “super‑puff” world that loops around its star in a wildly misaligned ...

The eight planets in our solar system (yes, it's still weird for me to write "eight," too) orbit the sun in roughly circular paths, although they're ever-so-slightly ellipses instead of circles. A new ...

Sedna is drifting into a part of its path where human technology can finally contemplate catching up, and that window will ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Researchers using Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Astronomers say it's the first piece of evidence to suggest that a pair of planets can share the same orbit. Reading time 3 minutes A group of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert was aimed at a ...

An ALMA telescope image shows two potential exoplanet bodies that appear to orbit a star on the same orbit. Credit: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / Balsalobre-Ruza et al. Astronomers think they've found ...

When Meatloaf sang “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” in 1977, we’re all but certain he was not doing the math on the potential of planets in the galaxy having the right conditions to harbor life. Because ...