When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Snapchat, the popular messaging app known for self-deleting messages and fun chat features, also offers a paid plan called ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...