By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

Deep in the older, denser reaches of the Milky Way, there is a red dwarf star that shouldn’t exist — or at least, its family ...

According to a Science report, the discovery was led by researchers at the University of Warwick using information from the European Space Agency's CHEOPS mission. The system consists of four planets: ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form.

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

The last day of February will feature an alignment of six planets across the night sky alongside the moon: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Find out how you can view these planets.

Climate and energy experts have praised President Donald Trump’s recent elimination of former President Barack Obama’s ...

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Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...