Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star—a predicament never previously observed. This exoplanet, as planets beyond our ...

Scientists may soon have a new way to detect planets that are orbiting Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), also known as violent stars. One star drawing material from the other, due to the lack of distance, ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system– whether it’s rocky Earth or massive Jupiter– are round? It’s something we rarely think about, but there’s a clear reason behind it. And ...

The planet plot thickens. Over the past few days, two rival definitions of the term “planet” have been put forward by astronomers gathered in Prague at a meeting of the International Astronomical ...

So what kind of life do you think might exist on Gliese 581g? Does it have little green men? Enormous creatures or tiny ones? Rain forest, desert or some landscape never before seen? KidsPost wants ...