Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Dr. Daniel Britt has a lengthy resume of impressive credentials, and even has an asteroid named him: 4395 DanBritt. He is the ...

In fact, says Millard, "it's just happenstance that they happen to be in this position of their orbits". And while there have been suggestions from some scientists that planetary alignments might ...

Here's what we know about Friday's planetary alignment ... with smaller, faster orbits, it's more rare for them to make an appearance, according to NASA. Venus is visible for only a few months ...

In this article, we delve into the science of planetary chaos and explore the hypothetical scenario of Earth changing its orbit.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

These events are called planetary parades because the planets seem to line up, one behind the other, in the night sky in the ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...