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 ...

WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, is a giant, ultra-hot, gaseous planet located 858 light years from Earth. It's hot because it ...

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 ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

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

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 OF201, ...

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 ...

Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa will get a lot of heat. Not only will the giant sun be bearing down on it, but Jupiter itself will become hotter and reflect more sunlight, which will provide its ...