Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

NEW MILFORD — Kyle Cloutier said she has great memories of volunteering at the John J. McCarthy Observatory, an astronomical observatory on the campus of New Milford High School. Cloutier’s love of ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Astronomers have identified a vast, cotton-candy–light “super‑puff” world that loops around its star in a wildly misaligned ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are. Rogue planets—planets that are adrift in ...

Five new exoplanets have been discovered—each of them so young, they are still growing. The baby planets were discovered by researchers in the midst of an international planet hunt, using a new ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on whom ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like a family in which short parents have tall children, a tiny red dwarf star is defying our ...

A new paper led by a York University professor and published today in Nature Astronomy introduces a simple theoretical framework to describe the evolution of the coupled interior–atmosphere system of ...