The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

More planets are changing directions. First, Mercury circled retrograde. This week, Mars is reversing course and Neptune starts spinning forward again. Going retrograde and stationing direct are the ...

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system? Astronomers have new cause to investigate. With powerful telescopic ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...

York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré discusses molten rocky exoplanets: rocky planets so close to ...

From Mercury to Pluto, an astrologer breaks down different planetary retrogrades and the meanings behind them Getty You've probably heard of Mercury retrograde — the time of year when communication ...

Shedding light on the gravity of the situation. Most people do not realize that many of the stars and heavenly bodies they see in the sky no longer exist. In fact, many have ceased to exist for ...

The next several weeks will give skywatchers a chance to see many planets at once. Shimpei Yamashita via Getty Images The night sky will offer stargazers a special sight for the next several weeks: ...

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 ...