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Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to Venus, that wouldn’t be the case. Not every planet has a moon – so why ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Our solar system officially houses eight planets, but some scientists say there could be a ninth. And that’s not just Pluto aficionados – evidence suggests a huge undiscovered world lurks on the dark ...

For years, the existence of a missing Planet 9 has been one of the predominate theories attempting to explain some of the eccentric orbits found in the outer Solar System. But so far, no such planet ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...