The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... which are typically larger and have small, circular orbits close to the equator of their host planet; and irregular moons, which can ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, have very elliptical orbits. UCLA astrophysicists have now measured the shape of the orbits of ...

With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...

UK stargazers were treated to a partial solar eclipse on Saturday morning, a phenomenon that sees the sun partially obscured ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system – using a technique known as ‘transit timing variation’.