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

A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

A strange tilt in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt has scientists wondering if the solar system is hiding a potential ...

Astronomers have found new evidence, revealing the existence of an unseen and mysterious planet that could be hidden in the solar system. The new research study which is published in the ...

Space is filled with outliers. While some solar systems function similarly to ours, others embody astrophysical properties that scientists still cannot explain. Some extrasolar gas giants, for ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

Blasting around the equators of the solar system's giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are fierce jet ...

If a massive ninth planet exists in our solar system, it might explain why the planets are out of line with the sun ... and by the just right amount. “It’s one puzzle piece that seems to fit together, ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...