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

Brown’s thinking is that a planet-sized object in the darkest reaches of the solar system could be tugging on the orbits of the ... right time with the right equipment,’ Dr Bloomer added.

Not only does this system ... solar system, including worlds so light they can be compared to marshmallows, worlds so hot they rain liquid metal or glass, and now, a world that weirdly orbits ...

So the authors of this new work propose using machine learning ... created a database of simulated solar system bodies. Some of them were given regular orbits, while others were given interstellar ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

As well as planets and moons, the solar system also contains dwarf planets, which are too small to be considered planets. The best known of these is Pluto, an ice dwarf that orbits far from the ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system ... for every three orbits of the inner planet ...