Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

The Moon doesn’t actually orbit Earth the way most textbooks show it, and this video explains the real path it takes through space, including how Earth and the Moon both orbit a shared center of mass ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s faint signal and strange motion suggest something big is lurking in the dark.

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...

Time-lapse footage of a newly discovered exoplanet as it makes its slow journey around two stars. To obtain the image of the planet, astronomers needed to remove the stars' glare. Two star icons mark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...

Planet 9 may exist 42 billion miles away, influencing objects in the Kuiper Belt, and could be discovered with modern telescopes within a year. Stolen shipping container with over $200K in merchandise ...