Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't understand." The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot ...