The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

Brown dwarfs typically have masses between about 15 and 75 times the mass of Jupiter The researchers performed even more simulations, this time including the orbits of the inner planets (Mercury ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

planets have been slowly appearing to shift across the sky — partially because of our orbital motion around the sun and partially because of the motion of the inner planets," Pitts said.