The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...