At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

For more than a century, people have wondered whether our solar system's planetary count really stops at eight. The idea ...

Did you miss the last planetary parade in June? The next planetary alignment is this weekend. Here's when to watch it ...

For over 10 years, scientists have been decoding the mysterious atmosphere of a famous “Pink Planet.” Now, thanks to ...

Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is ...

Learn about the formation of the grains within many meteorites, emerging from collisions of planetary bodies in the early ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA. This planetary parade occurs due to the alignment of the planets’ orbits around ...