New research has revealed that Hot Jupiters do not always push away or destroy nearby planets during their migration. This ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Due to something that is called orbital precession ... accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around the perihelion (during those ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered an exoplanet dubbed HD 20794 d that could have the right conditions ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

When an exoplanet is discovered, scientists are quick to describe it and explain its properties. Now, we know of thousands of ...

The recent hype about the planetary alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon is not as rare as ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

The moon’s orbital distance is steadily increasing at the very slow ... to the small rocky and metallic bodies of the inner solar system out to the orbit of Jupiter. Millions of “main-belt” asteroids ...