A new study suggests that a star 550 light-years away is gobbling up the remains of destroyed planets. RZ Piscium is a sun-like star estimated to be between 30 and 50 million years old — an infant ...
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has a distinct rusty red appearance and two unusual moons. The Red Planet is a ...
Forget about Luke Skywalker's fictional "Star Wars" home planet Tatooine and its two suns. Astronomers say they may have found the first known planet that's caught up in the orbits of three different ...
A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world. That ...
Some planets orbit so close to their stars that a single “year” lasts less than a day on Earth. A few of those worlds just ...
New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.
An artist’s impression of the simultaneous stellar eclipse and planetary transit events on Kepler-1647 b. Such a double eclipse event is known as a syzygy. Lynette Cook Lynette Cook Some worlds have ...