NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars ... This artist’s illustration ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

Mercury: It is nearest to the Sun. It is the smallest planet of the solar system, nearly of the same size and mass as the moon. It takes 88 days for one orbit around the Sun and 59 days for one ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed ... Observatory shows the possible orbit of a new exoplanet around two brown dwarfs, or failed stars ...

The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...