Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as Planet X, prominent astronomers ...

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It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered evidence of a newcomer that just might usurp that honor from Neptune.

Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...