An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new extrasolar planets, bringing to nearly 80 the number of planets found orbiting nearby stars. The latest discoveries, supported by the ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Astronomers recently made an important discovery when they found a rare "in-sync" solar system with six planets all moving in one big grand harmony, completely untouched by outside ...

"This is really like looking at ourselves in a funhouse mirror." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skewed planetary pathways around ...

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

We live on a planet that seems motionless, yet Earth orbits the Sun at a dizzying speed, and our entire Solar System moves through the galaxy. But how fast exactly are we traveling through ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of ...

Theorbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been altered by the fly-by of an enormous object from deep space, billions of years ago. According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet ...

It's a tale with many twists and turns, and quite a bit of violence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an ...