Beneath the surface lies a system as complex as any ecosystem. These 12 soil orders form the unseen foundation of life on ...

Such synchrony may occur when planets first form, but astronomers theorize that as time goes on, its likely for orbits to get knocked out of rhythm.

The newly discovered moons give Jupiter a total of 92 moons, now more than Saturn and the most of any planet in our solar system.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The universe really is expanding — astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by ...

Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

There are 12 different Planet Cards that can be obtained throughout the run. 9 of them are base planets and 3 of them are special planets that only appear after you've played its corresponding ...

A team of astronomy researchers in Montreal announced Thursday that two previously discovered exoplanets hundreds of light years away likely are primarily made of water.

The exoplanet Gliese 12 b is tantalizingly close and moderately warm, situated just 40 light-years away around a red dwarf star. The potentially habitable planet could be a good place to search ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Have you heard the buzz phrase "Mercury's in retrograde" being associated with things going a little wonky? We quiz a Milwaukee astrologer about it.

February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury, Uranus and Neptune alongside typically bright planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter ...

The number of planets around the Sun could rise from nine to 12 - with more on the way - if experts approve a radical new vision of our Solar System. An endorsement by astronomers meeting in Prague ...