When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Since Pluto is located so far from the sun, it takes around 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun. Pluto's orbit around the sun is not only a very long journey, it's also elliptical, resembling a ...

Discovered in 1846 through mathematics rather than sight, Neptune was the first planet found by calculation — astronomers ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...