A planet only about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed orbiting a Sun-like star at over 300 times farther from the star than the Earth is from our Sun. The newly confirmed planet is ...

The newly discovered TOI 451 planetary system features three planets orbiting the same sun. CREDIT Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center A newly discovered planetary system will ...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered promising evidence suggesting the existence of Planet 9, a hypothesized planet beyond Pluto in the far reaches of our Solar System. This new potential ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned ...

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...