A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

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Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...

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Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.