Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the fiery origin of WASP-121b, a distant exoplanet stretched ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking detection of silicon monoxide in the ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system that challenges long-held assumptions about where planets can ...

Co-paired stars, or stars that travel together, can provide insights into processes that other stars can't. Differences in ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

NASA reports more than 400 gas giants – large gas planets like Jupiter or Saturn – have been discovered outside of Earth's solar system. However, the possibility that a gas planet could ...

"The gravitational forces between the planets, including Earth, are negligible," says van Belle. "The only noteworthy effect is the moon's effect upon the tides." "A significant complication is ...

Planetary alignments, however, don't have any major physical effect on Earth. "The gravitational forces between the planets, including Earth, are negligible," says van Belle. "The only noteworthy ...

Gravity applies an effective force of mutual attraction to ... the idea that an inaudible mathematical harmony existed between the orbits of the planets was central to his Mysterium Cosmographicum.