These six planets are in perfect sync with each other as they dance through space around their star. Credit: Roger Thibaut (NCCR PlanetS) Astronomers have observed a solar system where six planets are ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

One hundred light years away, a handful of planets are circling a star in the same configuration as when they formed. By Katrina Miller Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright star ...

Astronomers gazing upon a star system not too far from Earth were recently treated to a marvelous discovery: a group of six planets moving around a sun-like star in a seemingly perfect cosmic dance ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

The discovery of a planetary system “out of whack,” where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other, was reported today (May 24) by a team of astronomers led by Barbara McArthur of ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

New research suggests a rocky “lava planet” orbiting very close to its star likely carries an atmosphere. Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s ...