Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a rare solar system in the Milky Way that boasts six planets orbiting in perfect rhythm like a cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

"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 ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / ...

It’s probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to ...