This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

From planets that rain glass sideways to worlds made entirely of ice or fire, the universe is full of bizarre and ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...