Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers 'How planets revolve' is possibly one of ...

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling ...

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems ...

so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 OF201, was found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system.

The planet orbits its star, TIC 241249530, at a distance about 12% of the distance between between Earth and the sun.That proximity means that it completes an orbit in just 15.2 Earth days.

While the Sun is by far the largest object in the Solar System, about 1,048 times the mass of Jupiter, gravity doesn’t work one way. Just as Earth pulls on you, you’re also pulling back on ...

The following evenings will see fleet-footed Mercury draw level with Jupiter, before rising above and away from the gas giant in the night sky as a result of the smaller world's tight orbit around the ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of greatest western elongation on June 1, at which time the dazzling 'morning ...