Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Six planets will appear close together after sunset in a rare planetary parade. Here is how and when to see this beautiful ...

Step outside just after sunset and you may catch an unusual sight: six planets strung across the sky in a gentle arc. The ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

As Leon Goretzka bids what can only be a bitter and hard farewell to Bayern Munich, he looks back on his time here.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have discovered a star system that’s out of ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Leonard P. Ullman Chair in Nutritional Ecology, Nutrition Theme Leader Charles Perkins Centre, Chair Sydney Food and Nutrition Network, University of Sydney Juliet Bennett receives funding from the ...