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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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.

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

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 ...

A similar parade of planets took place last June, but only two planets could be seen without any special equipment. This time, four are visible to the naked eye.