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 ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The universe really is expanding — astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations ...

This image from a simulation of atmospheric flow shows temperature patterns on one of the newly discovered planets (61Virb), which is hot enough that it glows with its own thermal emission. A movie of ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

If you love to look for planets glimmering in the night sky, this is a perfect time to do it. A so-called “planet parade,” when multiple planets appear in the night sky at the same time, is underway ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Six of eight planets in our solar system will align in a straight line in the midnight sky very soon. The planetary alignment, which has been called a "planet parade", will happen on ...